Secret Frequencies: A New York Education (American Lives)

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 to unflinching bleakness as Skoyles encounters New York's most comic, absurd, and sometimes dangerous seductions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803293550
• ISBN13: 9780803293557
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.3"