The Prince of West End Avenue: A Novel - Hardcover

Isler, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1882593049 ISBN 13: 9781882593040

Publisher: Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S., 1994

Synopsis

Holocaust survivor in zany retirement home replays haunting life.Rich. - L.A. Times Finalist National Book Critics Circle Winner, National Jewis Book Award, 1994 for fiction

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Review:

"A masterpiece" (Hugo Barnacle Independent)

"Alan Isler's novel has been compared with the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Saul Bellow... Can it possibly live up to such praise? It can, it does" (Anita Brookner Spectator)

"Masterly, imaginative and provocatively disturbing in its effortless transitions between the comic and the tragic" (Geoffrey Elborn Guardian)

"Hilariously funny...a wonderful acheivement. Not since the heyday of Bellow and Heller has language been used to such good effect, at once hilarious and profoundly humane. Not since Malamud have comedy and tragedy and pathos and romance come together so effortlessly" (Gabriel Josipovici Jewish Quarterly)

"Poignant, comic and delightfully clever" (Observer)

Book Description:

A bittersweet comedy set in a Jewish Old People's home in New York, this is a stunningly mature first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S.
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1882593049
• ISBN 13: 9781882593040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 246