Sarah Lawrence Class WRIT 3303-R, taught by Melvin Jules Bukiet. Arcade, $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-61145-909-8
The murder of Eric Davenport, a math professor at a small liberal arts college, propels this unwieldy round-robin novel by an undergraduate creative writing class at New York's Sarah Lawrence College. Grace Montoya, a student with whom Davenport had
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Melvin Jules Bukiet, Author . Norton $24.95 (337p) ISBN 978-0-393-04938-1
Prescient, more or less—it doesn't take a prophet to forecast cyclical violence in the Middle East—Bukiet's witty, engrossing novel anticipates the current resurgence of Palestinian-Israeli conflict, chronicling the derailment of
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Melvin Jules Bukiet, Author . Norton $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-393-05816-1
Bukiet (Strange Fire, etc.) loses his bearings in this strained, wooden collection, which strives so hard to be clever that subtlety flies out the window. The 11 stories are best compared to Woody Allen's fictional sendups of great writers, but...
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Melvin Jules Bukiet, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $20 (240p) ISBN 978-0-15-100083-8
The mundane and the mystical collide in these remarkable, offbeat stories that use a Jewish-American milieu to pose universal moral and metaphysical puzzles. In ``Gematria,'' a Manhattan jewelry dealer encounters a mysterious woman who wants a...
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Melvin Jules Bukiet, Author Arbor House $15.95 (234p) ISBN 978-0-87795-731-7
The circus that comes to Norma, N.J., (pop. 506) one summer's day in 1941 will, in the conventions governing fiction, bring with it labyrinthine mysteries and manifold secrets and will leave no life unchanged. Theodora Walsh and Lenore Bloom, both...
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Melvin Jules Bukiet, Author Picador USA $26 (376p) ISBN 978-0-312-20009-1
Sparing no sensibilities in this searing, bitterly satirical novel, Bukiet reflects on the hypocrisy, venality, depravity, corruption and folly of which the human race is capable, and produces a harrowing story that is an eerie reprise of both the...
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Melvin Jules Bukiet, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14536-1
Should any writer--especially a Jewish writer--have the temerity to depict the Holocaust and its survivors with irreverent irony and sardonic humor? The answer in the case of Bukiet's explosive, iconoclastic new novel (after the praised short story...
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