{"product_id":"9781954276192-ravage-son","title":"Ravage \u0026 Son","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\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\n\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\n\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\n\u003cp\u003eA lurid tale of revenge, this wildly evocative, suspenseful noir is vintage Jerome Charyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55418485178742,"sku":"9781954276192","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28232909.jpg?v=1742861353","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781954276192-ravage-son","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}