The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802137494)

Bruce Jay Friedman has been hailed by critics as a comic genius, a writer whose vision confronts the malaise of contemporary life with a liberating deadpan humor. Grove Press is proud to reissue the collected short stories by this acclaimed master of modern humor. Hailed by Newsweek as "a bona fide literary event," The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman brings together Friedman's fifty-seven greatest stories, which appeared in Esquire, Playboy, The New Yorker, and other magazines from 1953 to 1995. "Friedman [is] more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth, and Bellow. . . . What makes him more important is that he writes out of the viscera instead of the cerebrum." -- Nelson Algren, The Nation

Author: Bruce Jay Friedman
ISBN-10: 0802137490
ISBN-13: 9780802137494
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 10/16/2000
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.41w x 1.23d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 12/17/2000 pg. 36