The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff and Other Stories 爱普斯坦短篇小说集【菲利普·拉金:“爱普斯坦的作品继承了艾狄生(Joseph Addison)的风格,这种风格经历了《笨拙周刊(Punch)》和那些职业幽默作家后,已经逐渐式微…爱普斯坦比他们更复杂,更好读。”英文版,第一次印刷】
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.
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