A Faker's Dozen: Stories

by Melvin Jules Bukiet

Book Overview

The title of Melvin Jules Bukiet's latest collection hints at the deceitful nature of its multiple protagonists. An aspiring writer stalks Vladmir Nabokov across midtown Manhattan one afternoon in the summer of Watergate. A young co-ed's seduction of her elderly philosophy professor delivers her an A and him lasting happiness. Max, a liar and a voyeur, like any true artist, wanders the East Village taking photographs of murder victims. A famous Holocaust...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393342522
• ISBN13: 9780393342529
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The Short Review's review of A Faker's Dozen

A good short story is a breath of fresh air; a great short story is a shot of heroin. Anyone who believes that short stories differ from novels only in length has clearly never read a great one. One way to rectify this would be to read A Faker's Dozen: Stories, a collection of 11 gems by Melvin Jules Bukiet. In this, his third short story collection, Bukiet slowly lures the reader into his fictional world, starting near the shadowy border between the real and the ludicrous and then moving firmly into the fantastical by way of the sinister. The excellent first story, Squeak, Memory, begins innocently enough:........... [...]