The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction
This landmark anthology brings together some of the best stories written in the last thirty years by and about American Jews. Saul Bellow tells a brutal coming-of-age story set in Chicago; Mark Helprin recalls a stint in the Israeli army during the Six-Day War; Grace Paley explores the complex relationship between Jews and Blacks; Philip Roth muses on what life would have been like for Kafka if he had come to America, and maybe dated Roth's aunt From I.B. Singer's unforgettable depiction of a widower in Miami Beach to Michael Chabon's California-style Jewish wedding and Allegra Goodman's satiric portrayal of a yuppie Orthodox family, a rare view--and one surprising in its diversity--emerges out of the contemporary experience in America.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0805210652
ISBN13:9780805210651
Release Date:April 1996
Publisher:Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)
Length:416 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
Not the best of the best
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This anthology has among its contributors the greatest of all Jewish American writers of the short- story, I.B. Singer, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malmud, Cynthia Ozick. It also contains selections from other well- known Jewish writers, Grace Paley, Max Apple, Allegra Goodman, and others. It does not however in my judgment contain the greatest of 'Jewish stories' written in America. It does not contain Singer's'Gimpel' or his 'Spinoza of Market Street' or any of his truly greatest stories. It does not contain Bellow's best, or Roth's best or Ozick's best. An anthology of consolation- prizes in this regard. There is much worth reading here, but the greatest American- Jewish story stuff is not here.
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