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In this unique volume, four distinct stories spanning four centuries are woven together by a common theme, the Jewish experience in a Gentile world, as the human protagonists fight the evil of anti-Semitism with unexpected results. Reprint.
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Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and Francis Bacon all figure prominently in the four novellas that are Alan Isler's The Bacon Fancier. In the title story, an 18th-century Jewish violinmaker fancies both the philosopher and the breakfast meat of that name, his taste for the unkosher spilling over into his private affairs as well. Jews are at the center of all four of Isler's tales; in the first, the author retells Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Here Shylock is neither the venal, bloodthirsty Jew of Shakespeare's play, nor some 20th-century revisionist martyr; rather, he is a crusty, belligerent old man who goes looking for reasons to wrangle with the gentiles and considers his famous court case against the Christian merchant a highpoint for the ghetto. In "The Crossing," a wealthy young Jew meets Oscar Wilde on an ocean liner and finds both are shunned for different reasons. The final tale, "The Affair," takes readers to Broadway, where a young actor finds his research for a book on the infamous Dreyfus affair turned into a lurid musical.
These four intelligent stories filled with sex, theft, betrayal, and memory are concerned with a minority's struggle to retain identity in the face of the majority's disapproval. Filled with multifaceted characters and complex themes, Alan Isler's The Bacon Fancier serves up its provocative fare well-done.
About the Author
Alan Isler, born in England, emigrated to the United States at eighteen. He taught English literature at New York?s Queens College from 1967 to 1995 and now lives in London.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0140263799
- ISBN 13 9780140263794
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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