The owl & other stories / John Auerbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auerbach, John.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First English language edition.

Place of Publication:

New Milford, CT : Toby Press, 2003.

Summary:

This is the first collection of the stories of John Auerbach to appear in English, the language in which they were written. Many of these stories were originally published in magazines, including Commentary, Bostonia, the PEN magazine, News from the Republic of Letters, The Boston Globe Magazine and others. The stories draw upon the themes running through Auerbach's life: his years at sea, on a kibbutz in Israel, as an alienated man in America, his own and others' survival of the horrors of war and Holocaust. The Owl is a remarkable vignette; a special story. When it won the first PEN/UNESCO prize in 1993, awarded on the basis of "content and the power of communication," he was unknown, and still today, outside a small circle, he remains so. The Owl and other Stories makes available for the first time the remarkable writings of this especially literate and insightful observer.

Contents:

Preface: Saul Bellow 1

The Owl 3

The Black Madonna 11

My Captain and I 45

Cohen 53

Don Quixote and Other Jewish Memories 71

Durutti's Man 101

A Short Trip with Domenico Scarlatti and Elvis Presley from Amsterdam to Paris 125

The Towage of the Shomriah: a Memoir 153

The Yellow Eyes of my Dog 165

The Longest Trip 269

After the Stroke 281

Entropy 293.

ISBN:

1902881796

OCLC:

52724217