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Teitlebaum's Window
Wallace Markfield
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Description for Teitlebaum's Window
Paperback. Num Pages: 387 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 454.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
387
Condition
New
Number of Pages
387
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564782199
SKU
V9781564782199
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Ref
99-15
About Wallace Markfield
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.
Reviews for Teitlebaum's Window
"Mr. Markfield is a parodist, a relentless jokesmith, a gifted improviser in the Nichols and May tradition."
Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book 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 ... Read more
Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book 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 ... Read more