Alan Isler, Author Bridge Works Publishing Company $19.95 (246p) ISBN 978-1-882593-04-0
Set in a retirement home in Manhattan's Upper West Side in 1978, Isler's haunting first novel features Otto Korner, an Auschwitz survivor who is directing his fellow retirees in a retirement-home production of Hamlet. Otto blames his smug refusal to
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Alan Isler, Author Penguin Books $12.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-024514-1
An Auschwitz survivor living in a retirement home on Manhattan's Upper West Side is haunted by events from the past as he directs his fellow retirees in a stage production of Hamlet. (Aug.)
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Alan Isler, Author Viking Books $21.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-87407-1
"" `Whoever hath anything fixed in his person that doth induce contempt,' says Sir Francis, `hath also a perpetual spur in himself to rescue and deliver himself from scorn.' "" So muses the title character in Isler's impressive first collection of...
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Alan Isler, Author Penguin Books $11.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-025999-5
This satiric portrait of a Bronx academic ""combines a raucous send-up of the lit-crit industry with a serious tale of one man's quest for identity,"" wrote PW. (June)
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Alan Isler, Author, National Galleries of Scotland, Author Bridge Works Publishing Company $21.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-882593-13-2
Though good-natured, Nicholas Marcus Kraven, a visiting lecturer in English at a Bronx college, is a compulsive liar, a lustful cad and a would-be seducer of students. He's an imposter as well, posing as his dead English cousin, whom ""Nicholas""...
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