Synopsis
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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About the Author
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.
Review
"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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