The Love Song Of A. Jerome Minkoff - And Other Stories

Informationen zum Autor JOSEPH EPSTEIN is the author of the best-selling Snobbery and of Friendship , among other books, and was formerly editor of the American Scholar . His work has appeared in The New Yorker , Harper’s Magazine , the Atlantic Monthly , and other magazines. He lives in Evanston, Illinois. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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....

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Epstein
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2011
• EAN: 9780547520223
• ISBN: 978-0-547-52022-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical romance, Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, Short Stories, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Fiction: general and literary, Religious and spiritual fiction, Relating to Jewish people and groups, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Humorous / General, FICTION: Historical / World War II, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: Friendship, FICTION: City Life