A spectacular, lavishly comic send-up of the solemn Jewish family saga set in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s. Tells the story of Simon Sloan, from his days of matzo and milk to his marching off to war.
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Wallace Markfield (1926-2002) was one of the most important Jewish-American writers of the twentieth century. His novel To an Early Grave was adapted into the film Bye, Bye Braverman, directed by Sidney Lumet, and he was also the author of Teitlebaum's Window, You Could Live If They Let You, and Radical Surgery.
"Mr. Markfield is a parodist, a relentless jokesmith, a gifted improviser in the Nichols and May tradition." -- Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review
"So full is the book with the feel of the times, it would seem that Mr. Markfield, like Joyce, hoped that if all other records disappeared, Brighton Beach could be reconstructed from these pages.... It's all great fun, done with much verve and high spirits, a fictional romp during which the author enjoyed himself thoroughly and the reader will too." -- Thomas Lask, New York Times
"Teitlebaum's Window is a series of brilliant and often brilliantly sustained gags, takeoffs, and blackouts on daily American life in the American Diaspora during the Great Depression. The relish with which it exploits comic potentialities recalls Isaac Babel." -- Marvin Mudrick, Hudson Review
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hardcover. First Edition. tan cloth; author's initials, w/ 'punctuation' ornament & double rule frame, stamped in gilt on front, gilt lettering & rule design on spine; top edge maroon, fore-edge untrimmed; 387 pgs; illus dust jacket w/ $6.95 on front flap, author photos at back; Markfield's 2nd book. quotes by Brian Moore & Stanley Edgar Hyman on back cover. jacket design by Alice & Martin Provensen, typography & binding design by Muriel Nasser. fine copy in fine dust jacket w/ only small sticker residue-spot on ffep. Seller Inventory # 431
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