To an Early Grave - Softcover

Markfield, Wallace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564782611 ISBN 13: 9781564782618

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2009

Synopsis

When Leslie Braverman passes away at the early age of 41, four of his closest friends are reunited on an odyssey through the streets of Brooklyn in a beat-up Volkswagen searching for the funeral parlor. In a series of fits, starts and wrong-turns, the comedic banter that suffuses the journey of these four Jewish proponents of New Criticism and little-magazine writing is quietly transformed into a quest for the intellectual, emotional and sentimental aura of the past.

The basis for the 1968 movie "Bye Bye Braverman," "To An Early Grave" is a testament to the exuberant inventiveness of Wallace Markfield's writing.

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Review:

"Wallace's 1964 comic novel follows the mishaps that befall four men cruising through the streets of Brooklyn, NY, on their way to bury their friend Leslie Braverman, who has passed away at 41. Though told with humorous overtones, the book reveals that what the men are truly mourning is the loss of the genuine sincerity of the past, which has been replaced by intellectual pretense."?-- "Library Journal"

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."

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1564782611
• ISBN 13: 9781564782618
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 255