FRIENDSHIP'S FRIENDSHIPS

By Alan Goldfein

Here the conscience of a man in America between 1960 and now. He is an "entertainer" in folks' homes for a week's stayover crash, a baggage handler at an airport (a union guy), a doc worker (a union guy), Zoo assistant worker-feeder of (and learner from) wolves, gorillas, lions (non-union gig); a social worker, a Mafia "employee", a jailbird, a garbage collector (city union), a kibbutznik and pool-hustler (of Arabs and Sephardic Jews) in Jerusalem (in Old City), an ocelot-walker in Paris ("Quest-que c'est, monsieur?"-well, Baudelaire walked a pet crab), a blacks-pursuing pseudo-hipster, a jazz musician (studied and honed: alto sax and flute), a "successful" screenwriter (not so much study required, only connections), an employee of a Chinese news service in Beijing, a "bubby schlepper" (nurse assistant and patient lifter grunt) in a hospital, etc.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1733266291
• ISBN13: 9781733266291
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: American Editions Heidelberg
• Length: 771 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.9" x 5.3"