Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge - Softcover

Paul Zakrzewski

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060533463 ISBN 13: 9780060533465

Publisher: HarperPerennial, 2003

Synopsis

A collection of short fiction from twenty-five contemporary Jewish writers of the "post-Roth" generation offers provocative and compelling stories by Jonathan Safran Foer, Myla Goldberg, Nathan Englander, Tova Mirvis, Gary Shteyngart, and Ellen Miller, among others.

About this title

Review:

"Read at your own risk--and great reward." -- --Stephen J. Dubner, author of Turbulent Souls and Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper

.a selection of stories by writers of the "post-Philip Roth generation." ...features tales of sexuality, remembrance, and mysticism... -- Library Journal

"An anthology as ambitious as it is important...offers a glimpse of the new generation of American Jewish writers. "----Aufbau

I highly recommend this collection of fiction...(Lost Tribe) reflects the lives and struggles of all Americans today.--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Read at your own risk--and great reward."----Stephen J. Dubner, author of Turbulent Souls and Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper

...a selection of stories by writers of the "post-Philip Roth generation." ...features tales of sexuality, remembrance, and mysticism...--Library Journal

"Where Jewish literature and its youngest brightest practitioners are heading--and to capture them between covers."----New York magazine

An anthology as ambitious as it is important...offers a glimpse of the new generation of American Jewish writers. ----Aufbau"

Read at your own risk--and great reward. ----Stephen J. Dubner, author of Turbulent Souls and Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper"

Where Jewish literature and its youngest brightest practitioners are heading--and to capture them between covers. ----New York magazine"

About the Author:

Paul Zakrzewski (pronounced Zak-shef-ski) is awriter, editor, and literary event curator. As director of literary programs for the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, he runs a popular reading series featuring new and provocative Jewish writers at the KGB Bar in the East Village. He is also an editor at Heeb magazine, a Jewish pop culture collective, which was nominated for BestNew Title in the 2002 Utne Reader Alternative Press Awards. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and can be reached at www.lost-tribe-fiction.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperPerennial
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060533463
• ISBN 13: 9780060533465
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576