Fiction - Winter 2011

Adonis

By Jerome Charyn

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Jerome Charyn is the author of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson. His study of Joe DiMaggio will be published next year. "Adonis" is part of a collection of stories to be called "Bitter Bronx."