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- catalog abstract ""In his memoir, John Skoyles guides us through 1960s New York, a city we only thought we knew. Against a backdrop of late-night radio airwaves featuring talk-show kings like Long John Nebel, the sixteen-year-old pairs up with his Uncle Fred, a Mob associated and man-about-town who presses him into the seamy underworld of con games and call girls. At the same time, his Aunt Linda finds him a job as a messenger at Paramount Pictures on Times Square, where she works as a secretary and where Michael Caine and Jane Fonda make cameo appearances." "From the bars and swank apartments of Manhattan's Upper East Side to 42nd Street flophouses and haunts like Hubert's Freak Show, Skoyles comes face to face with New York's most comic, absurd, and sometimes dangerous seductions." "As his aunt notices his transformation, she reveals a shocking side of her own that will twist and charge his journey into adulthood, and she and Fred engage in an escalating rivalry for his allegiance." "Secret Frequencies spins from deadpan hilarity to unflinching bleakness in graceful turns. With pathos, wit, and searing realism, this memoir joins the ranks of classic coming-of-age narratives."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12935724.
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""As his aunt notices his transformation, she reveals a shocking side of her own that will twist and charge his journey into adulthood, and she and Fred engage in an escalating rivalry for his allegiance." "Secret Frequencies spins from deadpan hilarity to unflinching bleakness in graceful turns. With pathos, wit, and searing realism, this memoir joins the ranks of classic coming-of-age narratives."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""In his memoir, John Skoyles guides us through 1960s New York, a city we only thought we knew. Against a backdrop of late-night radio airwaves featuring talk-show kings like Long John Nebel, the sixteen-year-old pairs up with his Uncle Fred, a Mob associated and man-about-town who presses him into the seamy underworld of con games and call girls. At the same time, his Aunt Linda finds him a job as a messenger at Paramount Pictures on Times Square, where she works as a secretary and where Michael Caine and Jane Fonda make cameo appearances." "From the bars and swank apartments of Manhattan's Upper East Side to 42nd Street flophouses and haunts like Hubert's Freak Show, Skoyles comes face to face with New York's most comic, absurd, and sometimes dangerous seductions."".
- catalog extent "238 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Secret frequencies.".
- catalog identifier "0803243049 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Secret frequencies.".
- catalog isPartOf "American lives".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog relation "Secret frequencies.".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "974.7/1043//092 B 21".
- catalog subject "City and town life New York (State) New York.".
- catalog subject "F128.57.S56 S43 2003".
- catalog subject "Skoyles, John Childhood and youth.".
- catalog subject "Teenage boys New York (State) New York Biography.".
- catalog title "Secret frequencies : a New York education / John Skoyles.".
- catalog type "text".