Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff: And Other Stories

By Joseph Epstein

Book Overview

In his first collection of stories since Fabulous Small Jews , Joseph Epstein delivers all the pleasures his readers have come to expect: stories of ordinary men confronting the moments that define a life, told with the bittersweet humor and loving irony encompassed in the title of the book. These fourteen tales map a very particular world--Jews whose lives are anchored in Chicago--in rich, revealing detail even as they brim with universal longings: complex love affairs and unspoken rivalries, family triumphs and private disappointments. Epstein, who "happens to possess a standup comic's gift for punch lines" ( New York Times Book Review ), brings his emphatically grown-up characters to witty, rueful, and charming life. The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff is a marvelous collection from a master of the short form and one of the most distinctive writers working in America today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547520220
• ISBN13: 9780547520223
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"