The Wedding Jester

by Steve Stern

The New York Times has called Steve Stern "a prodigiously talented writer who arrives unheralded like one of the apparitions in his own stories." The Philadelphia Inquirer has said, "Steve Stern is an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155597290X
• ISBN13: 9781555972905
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

How I wish...!

..that Steve Stern had really been accorded his "distinctive place in modern American Jewish fiction." But he hasn't (yet). One does not have to be Jewish, or a Memphian, or a fan of magical realism to enjoy--nay, to wish to live inside of--his amazing stories and novels. His writing is funny and sad and deep and--I swear, I just opened Jester to a random page--"the stuff of forbidden texts, which made otherwise serious scholars into crackpots." Please, please, please, read his books, whoever you are. If you like Jester, your next stop should be A Plague of Dreamers, Lazar Malkin, and/or Harry Kaplan's Adventures Underground.

Steve Stern's Cosmic Comedy

Steve Stern is that rare writer who combines great storytelling with a gift for elaborate, RubeGoldberg sentences. His stories, while comic in nature, reveal hidden depths the more you venture into them. These are tales, rife with magic, that take the reader to places he or she has never been before, places of fantasy and truth, places in the heart and the head. For all his comic exuberance Stern leaves you with much meat to chew on. Highly recommended!

A Joy and A Sorrow

I greatly enjoyed this collection of stories. They were quirky and delicious. This was the stuff that my lower east side grandmother believed in. Saints, sinners and we, the observers cheering them on. The "Old Time Religion" with a twist, beautifully expressed in a multicolor canvass. It did evoke Chagall's work.

Sholom Aleichem Goes to Memphis

What a gem of a collection! The neighborhood mystical rabbi, the newlywed coupling orthodox couple, et al! I loved picturing the Memphis Jewish neighborhood. Can't wait to read his next work!

Stories that stay with you... a must read!

Wild. Imaginative. Entertaining and intelligent. What a joy to read.I look forward to more from Steve Stern who has the ability to take the reader where no other author can.