Secret Frequencies: A New York Education

by John Skoyles

Book Overview

In this compelling memoir, John Skoyles guides us through 1960s New York. Caught between his uncle Fred, a mob associate and man-about-town, and his aunt Linda, a secretary at Paramount Pictures on Times Square, the sixteen-year-old finds himself exploring everything from the bars and swank apartments of Manhattan's Upper East Side to the flophouses and haunts of Forty-second Street. Secret Frequencies spins in graceful turns from deadpan hilarity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803243049
• ISBN13: 9780803243040
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 9.0"