β Brooklyn Knight
π Fiction
π
2019
π English
β 126 KB
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β¦ LIBER β¦
Fire year: stories
β Scribed by Jason K. Friedman
- Publisher
- Sarabande Books
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Candid, cunning, brave, and wickedly funny," these stories "will make you remember the first time you read Philip Roth" (Salvatore Scibona).
Set it the Jewish communities of Georgiaβfrom the 1920s to the present dayβthis Mary McCarthy Prize-winning collection investigates the crossroads of desire and religion in seven "funny, fearless outsiders' tales . . . of sexual coming-of-age and temptation" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
A gay man attends his high school reunion in Savannah, where he's pursued by the now-married golden-boy football star from his youth. An awkward teenager grapples with notions of God, superstition, and girls at his bar mitzvah. A curator's assistant unearths the groundbreaking mystery of a Renaissance painter, and an even more surprising one in his personal life. A charitable cantor's hopes for a budding romance are matched only by his remorse after acting on impulse. An aging widow, devoted to...
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