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Teitlebaum's Window
Welcome to Brighton Beach of the 1930s and early '40s as filtered through Simon Sloan, from youth to would-be artist-as-a-young-man at Brooklyn College to the eve of his induction into the army. Wallace Markfield perfectly captures this Jewish neighborhood—its speech, its people, its unique zaniness. But like any masterpiece—Joyce's Dubliners comes readily to mind—Teitlebaum's Window both survives and expands upon its time and place. While remaining rooted in the specifics of its own world, thirty-seven years after first being published it teems with Markfield's inventiveness, hilarity, and singular voice.
Details
ISBN-10
1-56478-219-0
ISBN-13
9781564782199
Publication Date
Oct 1999
Nb of pages
400
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 in.
ReviewsPress Reviews
Newsweek
New Statesman
In effect, Wallace Markfield has taken traditional American-Jewish and stood it on its head: the esoteric references and the Yiddish slang—so often lost on British [and American] readers—reach a
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Publishers Weekly
New York Times Book Review
New York Times
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
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Hudson Review
Partisan Review
Markfield details a jungle of sexual misunderstanding, a world whose religious rituals have broken down, gone bankrupt, so that a series of homemade games, a collage of influences from radio
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