A faker's dozen : stories / Melvin Jules Bukiet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bukiet, Melvin Jules.

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

268 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2003]

Summary:

The wicked exploits of an assortment of louts and losers occupy Melvin Jules Bukiet's profligate imagination in these delectable stories. THE TITLE OF Melvin Jules Bukiet's latest collection hints at the deceitful nature of its multiple protagonists. An aspiring writer stalks Vladmir Nabokov across midtown Manhattan one afternoon in the summer of Watergate. A young co-ed's seduction of her elderly philosophy professor delivers her an A and him lasting happiness. Max, "a liar and voyeur, like any true artist, " wanders the East Village taking photographs of murder victims. A famous Holocaust survivor "with the big eyes and the big prize" conducts an impromptu circumcision. Ranging from 1895 Prague to the site of a Central American rebellion to the home of a certain Seattle software magnate to the roof of an urban skyscraper, each of these outrageous (though occasionally tender) stories offers keen insight into human nature.

Contents:

Squeak, memory

Splinters

The return of Eros to academe

Paper hero

The suburbiad

The swap

Filophilia

But, Microsoft! What byte through yonder windows breaks?

Tongue of the Jews

The two Franzes

The war lovers.

ISBN:

0393058166

OCLC:

52269176