Teitlebaum's Window
Will be published approx. on 18. November 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
387 pages
978-1-56478-219-9 (ISBN)
Description
Welcome to Brighton Beach of the 1930s and early '40s as filtered through Simon Sloan, from youth to would-be artist-as-a-young-man at Brooklyn College to the eve of his induction into the army. Wallace Markfield perfectly captures this Jewish neighborhood--its speech, its people, its unique zaniness.But like any masterpiece--Joyce's "Dubliners" comes readily to mind--"Teitlebaum's Window "both survives and expands upon its time and place. While remaining rooted in the specifics of its own world, thirty-seven years after first being published it teems with Markfield's inventiveness, hilarity, and singular voice.
Reviews / Votes
"Mr. Markfield is a parodist, a relentless jokesmith, a gifted improviser in the Nichols and May tradition." -- Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review "So full is the book with the feel of the times, it would seem that Mr. Markfield, like Joyce, hoped that if all other records disappeared, Brighton Beach could be reconstructed from these pages... It's all great fun, done with much verve and high spirits, a fictional romp during which the author enjoyed himself thoroughly and the reader will too." -- Thomas Lask, New York Times "Teitlebaum's Window is a series of brilliant and often brilliantly sustained gags, takeoffs, and blackouts on daily American life in the American Diaspora during the Great Depression. The relish with which it exploits comic potentialities recalls Isaac Babel." -- Marvin Mudrick, Hudson ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
435 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-219-9 (9781564782199)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Wallace Markfield (1926-2002) was one of the most important Jewish-American writers of the twentieth century. His novel To an Early Grave was adapted into the film Bye, Bye Braverman, directed by Sidney Lumet, and he was also the author of Teitlebaum's Window, You Could Live If They Let You, and Radical Surgery.