THE FAMILY MARKOWITZ.

Goodman, Allegra.

ISBN 10: 0374153213 / ISBN 13: 9780374153212

Published by FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX. NY 1996, 1996

About this Item

SIGNED by Allegra Goodman on the title page. Fine in a fine dj. Author's SECOND book.; Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 6339

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE FAMILY MARKOWITZ.

Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX. NY 1996

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Told through weddings, deaths, holiday dinners, and dreams, the story of three generations of the Markowitzes is revealed

Review:

The stories in this collection are so linked and consistent, the book is almost a novel. It tells the comic and endearing history of a family of archetypal American Jews. Rose, the finicky and irrational Jewish mother, becomes increasingly dependent on Percodan and on her two sons, Ed, a hard-headed academic, and Henry, an arty dilettante. Ed's writer wife Sara suffers through teaching creative writing at the local Jewish Community Center. Ed painfully endures an interfaith weekend with crushingly banal Christian ecumenists, even though both he and Sara are completely irreligious. Meanwhile their daughter Miriam alarms them by rediscovering Judaism. Goodman, whose stories appear regularly in the New Yorker, delights the reader with recognition of the funny in the familiar.