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Bad Jews and Other Stories de Gerald Shapiro

Bad Jews and Other Stories

Autor Gerald Shapiro
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2004
Bad Jews and Other Storiesis a nuanced and comic vision of life, love, and spiritual adventurism among the determinedly secular class of contemporary American Jews. Separated from the character-building hardships endured by their parents and grandparents, unable to find a faith of their own or for that matter to believe in much of anything at all, the characters ofBad Jews and Other Storieswander through the moral landscape of their lives in a loopy version of the Children of Israel's meandering way home. Along the way they suffer a range of antic, often absurd misadventures. And as often as not they find redemption as well as disaster.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803293120
ISBN-10: 0803293127
Pagini: 325
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: BISON BOOKS
Colecția Bison Books
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Gerald Shapiro (1950–2011) was a professor of English at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of From Hunger: Stories, editor of American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories (Nebraska 1998), and winner of the Ohio State University Short Fiction Prize for a collection of novellas and stories titled Little Men.

Recenzii

“Shapiro shows his readers the way home both emotionally and spiritually with his abiding compassion and tightly wound humor.”—Booklist

“Bad Jews marks the emergence of another original voice on the contemporary Jewish American literary scene—a voice that registers in often richly comic and profoundly moving ways.”—Forward

“Gerald Shapiro casts an incisive eye over his contemporaries.”—New York Times Book Review

Descriere

Bad Jews and Other Stories is a nuanced and comic vision of life, love, and spiritual adventurism among the determinedly secular class of contemporary American Jews. Separated from the character-building hardships endured by their parents and grandparents, unable to find a faith of their own or for that matter to believe in much of anything at all, the characters of Bad Jews and Other Stories wander through the moral landscape of their lives in a loopy version of the Children of Israel's meandering way home. Along the way they suffer a range of antic, often absurd misadventures. And as often as not they find redemption as well as disaster.