cover image Rabbi of Lud

Rabbi of Lud

Stanley Elkin. Scribner Book Company, $8.94 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-684-19013-6

Elkin ``defies death with a glistening tale that is laugh-out-loud hilarious as well as poignant,'' praised PW . He introduces a ``voluble, acerbically witty and deliciously irreverent'' rabbi whose business is officiating at the funerals of people he has never met in the necropolis of Lud, N.J. (October)