Teitlebaum's window - Hardcover

Wallace Markfield

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394448006 ISBN 13: 9780394448008

Publisher: Alfred a. Knopf, 1970

Synopsis

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.

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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 Review"

"Mr. Markfield is a parodist, a relentless jokesmith, a gifted improviser in the Nichols and May tradition." --?Alfred Kazin, ?"New York Times Book Review"

""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 Review"

About the Author

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."

Edition details

• Publisher: Alfred a. Knopf
• Publication date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394448006
• ISBN 13: 9780394448008
• Binding: Hardcover