The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff and Other Stories - Rilegato

Epstein, Joseph

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ISBN 10: 0618721959 ISBN 13: 9780618721955

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010

Riassunto

In his first collection of stories since Fabulous Small Jews, Joseph Epstein delivers all the pleasures his readers have come to expect: stories of ordinary men confronting the moments that define a life, told with the bittersweet humor and loving irony encompassed in the title of the book. These fourteen tales map a very particular world—Jews whose lives are anchored in Chicago—in rich, revealing detail even as they brim with universal longings: complex love affairs and unspoken rivalries, family triumphs and private disappointments. Epstein, who “happens to possess a standup comic’s gift for punch lines” (New York Times Book Review), brings his emphatically grown-up characters to witty, rueful, and charming life. The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff is a marvelous collection from a master of the short form and one of the most distinctive writers working in America today.

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Praise for Fabulous Small Jews"...utterly compelling..." --San Francisco Chronicle "Epstein shows a light touch and ironic tone... Epstein, always a graceful writer, also happens to possess a stand-up comic's gift for punch lines." --New York Times Book Review "..[a] spry collection of short stories about the golden years of the men and women whose childhoods were so dramatically interrupted by the war... Joseph Epstein has a light touch, which allows the readers to make their own meaning from his stories."-- Los Angeles Times "Deft writing . . . refreshing ---- and realistic." --Chicago Tribune "...one of our most respected men of letters... "The Master's Ring" possibly the best... A powerful work... these stories now and then remind us of diverse authors: Wallant, mentioned above; O. Henry ("Coming In With Their Hands Up"); even Damon Runyon ("Love and the Guinness Book of Records"). Still, with his trademark witty insight intact and engaged...the author he most reminds me of is Joseph Epstein." ---Chicago Sun-Times "...solid, subtle, endearing and refreshingly without gimmick... "Fabulous Small Jews" presents a growing rarity: stories that are accessible but challenging, that focus on everday events and people in ways that are not minmalist or meaningless, and whose writing is intelligent but not academic." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Book by Epstein Joseph

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0618721959
• ISBN 13: 9780618721955
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 260