Isaac Sidel, the ex-First Deputy of New York City, is at his lowest ebb. A wounded romantic, he now lives a lonely existence at a grimy hotel on West Forty-seventh street, lamenting the death of Blue Eyes Coen, his most favoured cop, and the waywardness of his daughter, Marilyn the Wild. Still blighted by the Guzmanns, the ruthless criminal family, and ravaged with bitterness and guilt, Isaac yet falls in love with Annie, a beguiling Irish prostitute with a dark secret. Secret Isaac trails our forlorn hero from New York's ...
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Isaac Sidel, the ex-First Deputy of New York City, is at his lowest ebb. A wounded romantic, he now lives a lonely existence at a grimy hotel on West Forty-seventh street, lamenting the death of Blue Eyes Coen, his most favoured cop, and the waywardness of his daughter, Marilyn the Wild. Still blighted by the Guzmanns, the ruthless criminal family, and ravaged with bitterness and guilt, Isaac yet falls in love with Annie, a beguiling Irish prostitute with a dark secret. Secret Isaac trails our forlorn hero from New York's political halls to the depths of Dublin's Joycean underworld as, on her behalf, he pursues a terrible and exacting revenge.
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Add this copy of Secret Isaac: a Novel to cart. $8.00, very good condition, Sold by Chaparral Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Arbor House.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; Minor shelf wear to binding. Bumped top corners. Light wear to edges of text block. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
Add this copy of Secret Isaac: a Novel to cart. $8.00, good condition, Sold by Montclair Book Center rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Montclair, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Arbor House.
Add this copy of Secret Isaac to cart. $8.00, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by McNally & Loften Publishers.
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New York. 1978. October 1978. Arbor House. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0877951969. 315 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. keywords: Literature America Cops. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Beginning with BLUE EYES, and continuing with MARILYN THE WILD and THE EDUCATION OF PATRICK SILVER, Jerome Charyn developed a true American original, Isaac Sidel, First Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City-of Big City Anywhere, America, really-a wounded romantic whose heart is ravaged by too much love for his fellow lesser-man, whose guts are on fire with too much rage at the well-placed killers of his City's dreams. Now in SECRET ISAAC Mr. Charyn (about whose most recent novel John Leonard in The New York Times said, ‘It's as if The Sound and the fury had been written by Candide') allows the reader to discover the essential Isaac, the secret Isaac, trailing him from New York City's political halls and lower depths to Dublin's Joycean underworld as he pursues villainy, true love and terrible revenge, and along the way creates a masterwork. inventory #1673.
Add this copy of Secret Isaac to cart. $18.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Arbor House.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Later. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Dustwrapper is affixed to cloth covers, clean text, lightly soiled dustwrapper, discolored dustwrapper spine. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Add this copy of Secret Isaac to cart. $23.00, very good condition, Sold by Bungalow Books, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pueblo, CO, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Arbor House.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0877951969. Signed by Charyn on the front free endpaper. Red cloth spine over white boards. Very little wear to the price-clipped dust jacket. Age toning to the flaps, and a slight crease to the rear flap. A signed sticker to the dust jacket spine. An Isaac Sidel novel.; 315 pages; Signed by Author.
Add this copy of Secret Isaac: a Novel to cart. $30.00, very good condition, Sold by Half Moon Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kingston, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Arbor House.
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Very good. Signed. First Edition. Signed by author Jerome Charyn on half title page. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket has a mylar plastic cover which shows some light scuffing. Dust jacket itself shows some slight darking and scuffing. Book itself shows some light rubbing on edges.
Add this copy of Secret Isaac: a Novel to cart. $32.73, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Arbor House.
Add this copy of Secret Isaac to cart. $37.08, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Add this copy of Secret Isaac (Isaac Quartet) to cart. $63.03, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
