Love Among the Greats

Love Among the Greats

Edith Pearlman's characters in this collection of stories are children, old women, young men, rabbis, toy makers, lovers, invalids, immigrants, schmoozers, angels, and fools; all perfectly real and accessible, all drawn with a kind of comic quietude. The title story begins: "At the dinner following Michael's wedding to Bellamy they did the chair thing. It was a Jewish wedding, after all - as Jewish as a wedding could be when the bride's mother was not Jewish and therefore the bride, strictly speaking, was not Jewish either; as Jewish as a wedding could be in a prairie college town where the one synagogue, struggling to keep solvent, rented itself out weekdays to Alcoholics Anonymous and a quilting group." Winner of the first annual Spokane Prize for Fiction, Love Among the Greats is a magnificent world tour of characters, tones, and fictional structures, all of them brought to life with a stunning restraint.
Country USA
Brand University of Washington Press
Manufacturer Carnegie Mellon University Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780910055802
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Washington Press
Manufacturer	Carnegie Mellon University Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780910055802
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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