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Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781631493874 Year: 2019 Publisher: W W Norton & Company Pages: 304

Description: sCharyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer”so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to makeimitation impossible.t” Tom Bissell  Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon- to-be twenty-sixth president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly combining superhero dialogue with haunting pathos. Beginning with his sickly childhood and concluding with McKinley™s assassination, the novel positions Roosevelt as a sperfect bull in a china shop,t a fearless crime fighter and pioneering environmentalist who would grow up to be our greatest peacetime president.With an operatic cast, including sBamie,t his handicapped older sister; Eleanor, his gawky little niece; as well as the devoted Rough Riders, the novel memorably features the lovable mountain lion Josephine, who helped train Roosevelt for his scrowded hour,t the charge up San Juan Hill. Lauded by Jonathan Lethem for his spolymorphous imagination and crack comic timing,t Charyn has created a classic of historical fiction, confirming his place as sone of the most important writers in American literaturet (Michael Chabon).