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To An Early GraveCollection Lannan Selections
When Leslie Braverman passes away at the early age of 41, four of his closest friends are reunited on an odyssey through the streets of Brooklyn in a beat-up Volkswagen searching for the funeral parlor. In a series of fits, starts and wrong-turns, the comedic banter that suffuses the journey of these four Jewish proponents of New Criticism and little-magazine writing is quietly transformed into a quest for the intellectual, emotional and sentimental aura of the past. The basis for the 1968 movie Bye Bye Braverman, To An Early Grave is a testament to the exuberant inventiveness of Wallace Markfield's writing.
Details
ISBN-10
1-56478-261-1
ISBN-13
9781564782618
Publication Date
Oct 2000
Nb of pages
255
Dimensions 5.5 x 8 in.
Summary
ReviewsPress Reviews
New York Times
New York Times Book Review
Times Literary Supplement
Time
This hilarious novel can be enjoyed by the general reader for its grotesque comedy, savored by the insider for its satire on the folkways of Greenwich Village intellectuals . . . It can also be read
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Saturday Review Quotations
To An Early Grave is the funniest book I have read in a long time, the most discerning and the most astute.
-Joseph Heller
With savage yet affectionate wit, Markfield mounts some exotic and original specimens of New York literary lepidoptera for our inspection. The book is vivid, hilarious, and wonderfully well written.
-Brian Moore WE ALSO SUGGEST
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