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Fabulous small Jews / Joseph Epstein.
Van Pelt Library PS3555.P6527 F33 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epstein, Joseph, 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Jews--United States--Fiction.
- Jews.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 340 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
- Summary:
- Fans of Joseph Epstein's best-selling Snobbery: The American Version will recognize the same wit, insight, and incisive social examination in Fabulous Small Jews, Epstein's first collection of stories since 1992's The Goldin Boys. In these pages are artists, writers, a commodities trader, a concert pianist, lawyers on the make, all at various crossroads and turning points in their lives. These are classic stories with universal themes: the rights of talent, the attempt to shake one's identity, the desperation of strangled impulses, the complexities of family love. But, as always with Epstein, the magic, the charm, and the humor are in his lavish details. The stories in Fabulous Small Jews are small worlds writ large, and Epstein's observant eye and engaging voice bring them alive on the page.
- Contents:
- Felix Emeritus
- Artie Glick in a family way
- The third Mrs. Kessler
- Moe
- Love and The Guinness Book of Records
- Family values
- The executor
- Saturday afternoon at the zoo with dad
- Freddy Duchamp in action
- Don Juan Zimmerman
- Dubinsky on the loose
- Coming in with their hands up
- The master's ring
- Howie's gift
- A loss for words
- My little Marjie
- Postcards
- Uncle Jack.
- ISBN:
- 0395944023
- OCLC:
- 50166738
- Online:
- Publisher description
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