Musical moment : and other stories / Yehoshua Kenaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ḳenaz, Yehoshuʻa.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Momenṭ musiḳali. English

Language:

English

Hebrew

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

176 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First North Amer. edition.

Place of Publication:

South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press, [1995]

Summary:

Yehoshua Kenaz follows a young boy through the rites of passage in these four artfully composed stories. In "The Three-Legged Chicken" a man, now middle-aged, reflects on his first encounter with death - his grandfather's - and re-lives a child's confusion and pain. "Henrik's Secret" is the bittersweet tale of a youthful friendship which crosses over social boundaries and results in an explosion of perplexing and unwanted emotions. In the title story, the boy's violin becomes a two-edged sword in a struggle for independence against his doting mother. In "Between Night and Dawn" Kenaz explores adolescent cruelty and the first stirrings of lust as experienced by a group of friends and schoolmates during a weekend wilderness outing. In all of these stories Kenaz details the slow erosion of childhood innocence and the inevitable intrusion of worldly knowledge.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has publisher postcard laid in.

ISBN:

1883642183

1883642477

OCLC:

32086498