Books by Steve Stern and Complete Book Reviews
Steve Stern, Author . Algonquin $24.95 (370p) ISBN 978-1-56512-619-0
A family of long-suffering eastern European Jews protects a frozen rabbi from pogroms, revolution, and racketeers in this intermittently fabulous multigenerational saga. Stern (The Angel of Forgetfulness
) uses two narrative threads, one beginning...
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Steve Stern, Author Graywolf Press $14 (232p) ISBN 978-1-55597-290-5
Rich and wondrous, these nine tales confirm Stern's (A Plague of Dreamers) distinctive place in modern American Jewish fiction, as he continues to stake out his own unique territory where history and myth intersect, where Jewish legends, mysticism...
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Steve Stern. Graywolf, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-1-55597-715-3
Like much of his previous work, Stern’s latest is a fabulist Yiddishkeit saga set in the Pinch, a historic Jewish neighborhood in Memphis, Tenn. This time, “the book and the place are one,” as the protagonist, Lenny Sklarew, discovers a tome titled...
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Steve Stern, Author Ticknor & Fields $19.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-89919-724-1
Set in waterlogged Memphis during the great flood of 1939, this yeasty, vibrant novel spins an unusual variation on the Huck Finn theme. For 15-year-old Harry Kaplan, recently transplanted from Brooklyn to Memphis's teeming Jewish ghetto, working in
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Steve Stern, Author, B. Grossman, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19532-2
Stern's captivating tales of the inhabitants of the Pinch, a teeming Jewish community in Memphis, blend yeasty realism and soaring fantasy. The first of the three novellas, ``Zelig Rifkin and the Tree of Dreams,'' features a nerdy grocer's assistant
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Steve Stern. Melville House, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-612-19982-5
Stern (The Pinch) sketches an exuberant portrait of expressionist painter Chaim Soutine, anchored in the artist’s bohemian life in 1917 Paris. Chaim arrives destitute from a Russian shtetl and begins a friendship with painter Amedeo Modigliani....
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Steve Stern. Melville House, $19.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-68589-165-7
Stern (The Village Idiot) delivers a droll dual narrative of a real-life German Israeli historian tasked with salvaging the literature hidden from and seized by the Nazis during WWII and a man attempting to make light of his Polish village’s...
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