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Title: King of the Jungle by Jan Merlin ISBN: 1-4010-6000-5 Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Pub. Date: July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Grim and realistic slice of life
Comment: Widowed Polish immigrant mother Jadwiga hasn't got a chance. To support herself and her two beloved children, Andrew and Caroline, she works hellish hours at the most menial and demeaning jobs. While Jadwiga scrubs, her children are constantly in peril, but while Andrew narrowly escapes street crime and a murderous pedophile, and the lovely Caroline finds out being a kept woman isn't all that glamorous, they seem to be doing all right... until.... Jan has actually combined two different novels, originally set in different time periods, fairly seamlessly here to tell a continually moving and compelling story. He has also re-created the world of his own youth--- the people, the places, the bleakness and the unexpected joys. His lyrical evocations of character and situation made for a novel I had trouble putting down. I finally just sat up half the night and finished it.

Rating: 5
Summary: EXTRAORDINARY LOOK AT AMERICA IN THE 1930s
Comment: Jan Merlin has done it again! This time he has turned his attention to a setting closer to home: growing up in New York's tenements during the days of the Great Depression and World War II. Clearly now an author at the top of his game, Merlin presents the horrors of a poverty-stricken childhood without the depressing and unremitting perspective of McCourt's Angela's Ashes. Though the heavy burden of life's tragedies withers many, Merlin's world contains a tone that puts these events into perspective. A modern study in Naturalism, this is literature at its finest: Though Johnny Weismuller shows up only briefly for a swan dive, he represents the hopes of the times and the expectations of an immigrant Polish family. This is a remarkable book, and in my opinion, the most accessible of all of Merlin's novels; it speaks to Americans about the American dream in a way people will accept and revere.