{"product_id":"short-takes-michael-meltsner-9781610271141","title":"Short Takes","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrisscrossing Manhattan, Jeremy, a New York lawyer uneasy with success, confronts his doubts through a series of encounters with the hard-edged, unpredictable life of the city. Revealed through these meetings, friendships and events are war stories of the courtroom and of the analytic couch; memories of Lenny Bruce and Jackie Robinson; the wiles of clever lawyers, Washington in-fighters, of a boss called the Soft Killer, of celebrity poker players and would-be reformers; recollections of frontier Israel and rural Georgia in the sixties. Behind Jeremy lies a brash West Side youth spent amid ethnic gangs and McCarthyism, the special ways of an only child, an idealist out of phase... \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese are a few ingredients of the provocative milieu of \u003ci\u003eShort Takes\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Meltsner's unsettling first novel about a lawyer for whom love and work are always intertwined, a man who no longer believes in rules but continues to live by them. Jeremy is a lover who refuses to let go, a New Yorker at odds with the harsh pace and fractious spirit of his city until in the end he negotiates his own terms. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreviously published in hardcover by Random House, this novel is newly republished in paperback and eBooks by Quid Pro Books. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eShort Takes\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Meltsner's engaging and extremely well written first novel, creates a character of enormous vitality and considerable charm: funny, caring, searching and all-too-humanly paradoxical.\" \u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In 'The Trial' Kafka's Joseph K. tries to discover what sort of crime he is charged with. In 'Short Takes' Jeremy tries to discover his innocence. The difference is interesting... 'Landscape is character, ' according to Henry James, and some of 'Short Takes' is about Jeremy's relationship to New York City. 'The most abiding problem I have about New York, he says, is the need to explain it. In Manhattan, no one can suspend disbelief... problems are too large for solution and can only be managed.'\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The real triumph of \u003ci\u003eShort Takes\u003c\/i\u003e is that it not only rings true but affirms the pleasures of lawyering... Confusion is the hallmark of modern times--and deep down, both Mr. Meltsner and Jeremy are aware that the ambiguities of urban life and lawyering have a vast richness.\" \u003cbr\u003e -Tamar Lewin, in \u003ci\u003eNational Law Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Meltsner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1610271149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781610271141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Quid Pro, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d","brand":"Michael Meltsner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48800431735039,"sku":"9781610271141","price":17.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/short-takes-michael-meltsner-9781610271141","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}