Stern

by Bruce Jay Friedman

Overview

Grove Press continues the reissue of Bruce Jay Friedman's critically acclaimed fiction with two classic novels by the comedic genius whose work Nelson Algren hailed as "more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth, and Bellow ...[and] more important." Friedman's first novel, Stern, tells the story of a young Jewish man who relocates his family from the city to the suburbs, where they are besieged by voracious caterpillars and a bigotry that ranges from the genteel snub to outright confrontation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781893079052
Publisher:	Jewish Contemporary Classics, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/01/2000
Edition description:	Abridged
Product dimensions:	4.13(w) x 7.74(h) x 1.13(d)

Editorial Reviews

This is cruel, sadistic stuff, and helplessly funny... One laughs because Stern is so relentlessly naive and also because he is so right, which brings pain. Stern is -black humor is- the retelling of Job. Only this Job gets an ulcer instead of a benediction.

Village Voice