The Great Kisser: Stories
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- Synopsis
- A profoundly funny—and comically profound—story collection from one of the most original voices in contemporary American fictionWhen his dying psychiatrist gives him the tapes to thirty years&’ worth of therapy sessions, what else can Michael Goldberg do but listen? It is the story of his life, after all—never mind the fact that it&’s narrated by a younger version of himself who has no idea what&’s going to happen next.Besides, as a man of letters best known for &“My Mother Is Not Living,&” the story that earned him a reputation as &“the Jewish writer who hated his mother more than any other Jewish writer,&” Michael has never been especially concerned with the niceties of literary convention. What he really wants, what he&’s been looking for from New York to Hollywood and back again—from doomed high school romances to a late marriage begun in sin and overshadowed by tragedy, from boyhood days playing stickball in the streets of Queens to middle-aged afternoons behind a desk at the activist organization Jewish Punchers, sorting masses of data into one of two files: &“Good for the Jews&” or &“Bad for the Jews&”—are answers. To life&’s great mysteries, sure, but mainly to the one question that always seems to be waiting for him, wherever he goes: How did I end up here?What Michael discovers in his therapist&’s tapes, and what David Evanier so masterfully portrays in this hilarious and heartbreaking collection, is a life that is no less inevitable for being unplanned, and no less extraordinary for being average.
- Copyright:
- 2007
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 174 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781497641631
- Publisher:
- Open Road Media
- Date of Addition:
- 11/27/24
- Copyrighted By:
- David Evanier
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.