Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780547520223)

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.

Author: Joseph Epstein
ISBN-10: 0547520220
ISBN-13: 9780547520223
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2011
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.31w x 0.66d