by Jerome Charyn · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070405558
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«Il était une fois un droshky» is the novel by Jerome Charyn, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (272 pages, in French).
The action takes place in a working-class neighborhood of New York, where a group of retirees gathers every afternoon in a café. Former beauty queens, dealers, violinists, rogues, and Yiddish theater actors intertwine their lives amid stories of love, jealousy, revenge, and low blows, while the brilliant narrator Pincus pulls the strings.
Translated into French by Marie-Pierre Bay; originally published in 1964.
For readers of literary fiction who appreciate ensemble stories, bittersweet humor, and a New York setting.
Jerome Charyn is an American writer. With nearly 50 published works over a 50-year span, Charyn has a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life, writing in multiple genres.
