A horse walks into a bar / David Grossman ; translated by Jessica Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grossman, David, author.

Contributor:

Cohen, Jessica (Translator), translator.

Standardized Title:

Sus eḥad nikhnas le-bar. English

סוס אחד נכנס לבר. אנגלית

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Comedians--Israel--Fiction.

Comedians.

Nightclubs--Israel--Fiction.

Nightclubs.

Israel--Fiction.

Israel.

Jewish fiction.

Comedians--Fiction.

FICTION--Humorous.

FICTION--Jewish.

FICTION--Literary.

Bildungsromans.

Fiction.

Local Subjects:

Comedians--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Coming-of-age fiction.

Physical Description:

193 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First United States edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

Summary:

"A stand-up comedian recalls some of his darkest moments and traumatic memories from childhood on stage in front of a live audience"-- Provided by publisher.

Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of stand-up in a dive in a small Israeli city. In the audience are some whom Dov knew as a boy, an awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually Dov's patter becomes a kind of memoir: we meet his mother, a Holocaust survivor in need of constant monitoring, and his punishing father, a striver who had little understanding of his creative son; Dov recalls his week at a military camp for youth; and shares a story of loss and survival.

Notes:

National Jewish Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 2017

Other Format:

Online version: Grossman, David. Horse walks into a bar.

ISBN:

9780451493972

0451493974

OCLC:

946142036

Publisher Number:

99968186130