Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780815603566)

All of Steve Stern's effervescent stories in this collection have a common relationship, either by setting or allusion, to the whimsically dangerous North Main Street neighborhood of Pinch--a mythical Jewish area perched atop the river bluff in Memphis. Here the voice of the Lord rises up from gas burners and out of pay phones. Here aging fathers-in-law live in backyard sheds and negotiate with the Angel of Death. Here is a land in which a host of very different characters share a common tendency to ignore the usually agreed-upon bonds of reality And in their rollicking wisdom all will confirm Susan Sontag's earlier inventory of Mr. Stem's talents: "Great brio, whiplash sentences, lots of energy, and charm."

Author: Steve Stern
ISBN-10: 0815603568
ISBN-13: 9780815603566
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1995
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.33h x 5.51w x 0.75d