Physical Description
xxix, 306 p. ; 21 cm
Contents
Introduction / Jerome Charyn
Grandma Lausch (from The adventures of Augie March / Saul Bellow
Cunt crazy (from Portnoy's complaint) / Philip Roth
The Guest (from Criers and kibitzers, kibitzers and criers / Stanley Elkin
In dreams begin responsibilities (from In dreams begin responsibilities) / Delmore Schwartz
Hester Street (from Red ribbon on a white horse) / Anzia Yezierska
City boy (from Going places) / Leonard Michaels
Levitation (from Levitation: five fictions / Cynthia Ozick
Goodbye and good luck (from The little disturbances of man) / Grace Paley
Death in Miami Beach (from The age of happy problems) / Herbert Gold
The cellar (from Call it sleep) / Henry Roth
The history of them all (from Beautiful losers) / Leonard Cohen
No Kaddish for Weinstein (from Without feathers) / Woody Allen
The magic barrel (from The magic barrel) / Bernard Malamud
I stand here ironing (from Tell me a riddle) / Tillie Olsen
Kaddish parts 1, 3, and 4 (from Kaddish) / Allen Ginsberg
The little goat (from Haunch paunch and jowl) / Samuel Ornitz
Letter from Mogilev (from The dark lady from Belorusse) / Jerome Charyn
The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company (from News from the new American diaspora and other tales of exile) / Jay Neugeboren
Escape from civilization (from The collected stories) / Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Other Authors/Editors
Charyn, Jerome.
ISBN
1560257407
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
