The Prince of West End Avenue

Alan Isler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

1996
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-970151-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In the Emma Lazarus retirement home in uptown Manhattan, the Jewish inmates embark on a chaotic, bitchy production of Hamlet. Comedy and tragedy combine as our hero, Otto Korner, directs his quirky, libidinous fellow residents in the play and looks back over his adventures in Germany, Zurich, Auschwitz and America.

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In the Emma Lazarus retirement home in uptown Manhattan, the Jewish inmates embark on a chaotic, bitchy production of Hamlet.

Comedy and tragedy combine as our hero, Otto Korner, directs his quirky, libidinous fellow residents in the play and looks back over his adventures in Germany, Zurich, (where he met Lenin and inadvertently invented Dada), Auschwitz and America.

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Autor

Alan Isler was born in London in 1834. His first novel, The Prince of West End Avenue, was acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. In America it won the National Jewish Book Award and was one of the five fiction nominees for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award. In Britain it won the Jewish Quarterly Fiction Award. He is also the author of the novels, Kraven Images and Clerical Errors, and a collection of novellas, The Bacon Fancier.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.1996
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 129 x 198 mm
• Gewicht: 181 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0-09-970151-0 / 0099701510
• ISBN-13: 978-0-09-970151-4 / 9780099701514
• Zustand: Neuware