The Love Song of A Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories

✍ Scribed by Epstein, Joseph

• Book ID: 109937589
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 506 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780618721955

✦ Synopsis

In his first collection of stories since Fabulous Small Jews , Joseph Epstein delivers all the pleasures his readers have come to expect: stories of ordinary men confronting the moments that define a life, told with the bittersweet humor and loving irony encompassed in the title of the book. These fourteen tales map a very particular world--Jews whose lives are anchored in Chicago--in rich, revealing detail even as they brim with universal longings: complex love affairs and unspoken rivalries, family triumphs and private disappointments. Epstein, who "happens to possess a standup comic's gift for punch lines" (New York Times Book Review), brings his emphatically grown-up characters to witty, rueful, and charming life. The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff is a marvelous collection from a master of the short form and one of the most distinctive writers working in America today.