{"product_id":"9781954276192","title":"Ravage \u0026amp; Son","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA master storyteller’s novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century Manhattan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRavage \u0026amp; Son\u003c\/i\u003e reflects the lost world of Manhattan’s Lower East Side—the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the twentieth century—in a dark mirror.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbraham Cahan, editor of the \u003ci\u003eJewish Daily Forward\u003c\/i\u003e, serves as the conscience of the Jewish ghetto teeming with rogue cops and swindlers. He rescues Ben Ravage, an orphan, from a trade school and sends him off to Harvard to earn a law degree. But upon his return, Ben rejects the chance to escape his gritty origins and instead becomes a detective for the Kehilla, a quixotic gang backed by wealthy uptown patrons to help the police rid the Lower East Side of criminals. Charged with rooting out the Jewish “Mr. Hyde,” a half-mad villain who attacks the prostitutes of Allen Street, Ben discovers that his fate is irrevocably tied to that of this violent, sinister man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lurid tale of revenge, this wildly evocative, suspenseful noir is vintage Jerome Charyn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jerome Charyn","offers":[{"title":"Bellevue Literary Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-09-01","offer_id":44230041043199,"sku":"9781954276192","price":26.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7e8b0398-7e9d-4c67-8456-e0a888836c9c.jpg?v=1692991062","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781954276192","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}