Leslie Epstein, Author . Other Press/Handsel $25.95 (461p) ISBN 978-1-59051-250-0
Epstein's (King of the Jews
; San Remo Drive
) ninth book imagines a wisecracking American architectural genius, Amos Prince, who, after fleeing America, wows Mussolini with the design for a mile-high skyscraper. The absurdist encounters between
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Leslie Epstein, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (419p) ISBN 978-0-395-54704-5
The eponymous protagonist of Epstein's ( King of the Jews ) nightmarishly imaginative new novel is an Hungarian-Jewish immigrant to Boston in 1845, where he for a short time attends Harvard Medical College, until an ill-fated experiment cuts short...
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Leslie Epstein, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-15622-0
With chutzpah worthy of the early movie moguls he so richly describes, Epstein (King of the Jews) stages a darkly comic fantasia about Hollywood and Nazis, power and imagination. Narrated by a wry, mildly tragic Peter Lorre, the tale begins in 1938...
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Leslie Epstein, Author W. W. Norton & Company $23.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-393-04804-9
Leib Goldkorn--Vienna-born Jew, professional flautist and earnest rou returning from Epstein's The Steinway Quartet--turns 94 as he narrates this wise, heroically funny novel on a frigid fall morning in 1996. Faced with another day caring for his...
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Leslie Epstein. Norton, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-08131-2
Lieb Goldkorn, as followers of his adventures—collected in previous volumes by his amanuensis Epstein—know, is a flautist, graduate of the Akademie für Musik, Philosophie, und darstellende Kunst, Holocaust survivor, and former lover of Carmen...
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