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.
ISBN: | 9780803293557 |
Publication date: | 1st December 2006 |
Author: | John Skoyles |
Publisher: | Bison Books an imprint of University of Nebraska Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 248 pages |
Series: | American Lives |
Genres: |
Biography: general |