In the pinch, a Jewish neighborhood perched atop the river bluff in Memphis, strange and wonderful things happen: The angel of death pays a visit in a blue serge suit, the voice of God commands Morton Gruber to collaborate on a book, a young boy sends his spinster aunt on a blind date with the archangel Azrael.

Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven

Stern, Steve

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

The Angel of Forgetfulness

In a trilogy of connected stories that revolve around an unfinished manuscript and a fallen angel's relationship with his half-mortal son in 1900 New York, three people depart from their ordinary lives in the wake of a series of extraordinary adventures. By the award-winning author of The Wedding Jester. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

United States

In a trilogy of connected stories that revolve around an unfinished manuscript and a fallen angel's relationship with his half-mortal son in 1900 New York, three people depart from their ordinary lives in the wake of a series of extraordinary adventures. By the award-winning author of The Wedding Jester. 17,500 first printing.

VIKING

This collection of stories revolves around a mythical Jewish neighborhood where a host of different characters share a common tendency to ignore the usually agreed-upon bonds of reality

Short Stories & Anthologies

Three novellas about the Pinch, a forgotten Jewish community in a backwater of Memphis, Tennessee, weave a tapestry of lives scarred by the past and transformed by the promise of assimilation and the sacrifices of preceding generations

A Plague of Dreamers: Three Novellas

Scribner

The nine stories in this collection all share either the theme or the setting of the mythical Jewish neighborhood of North Maine Street in the author's native Memphis, Tenn. He writes about mischievous "cheder" boys who try to lead a "lamedvovnik" into temptation, of the Lord bullying Morton Gruber into a book collaboration, and of his Aunt Esther's very strange, literally unworldly, suitor.

Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)

Syracuse University Press

Steve Stern, "an astonishing writer . . . who has secured himself a seat in the distinguished history of Jewish-American letters" (The Philadelphia Inquirer), returns with lyrically comic tales about the Pinch, a backwater Jewish community in Memphis, Tennessee, whose misbegotten citizens refer to themselves as "the lost tribe." Stern's dreamers are plagued by history, lust, solitude, and the extravagance of their own fevered imaginations: Zelik Rifkin, nebbishe mama's boy, invades his neighbors' dreams and nightmares, and heroically changes the outcomes; Hyman Weiss, would-be successor to Harry Houdini, failing at every attempt to re-create such illusions as the Tortures of the Procrustean Bed, ends up pulling off the most stupendous stunt of all; and Itchy Kabakoff, outcast and grifter, constantly on the move with a traveling carnival, carries as his baggage the memories of three generations of the Kabakoff clan. Steve Stern, a Sholom Aleichem on the Mississippi, is a consummate spinner of tales, a mythmaker. A Plague of Dreamers brilliantly evokes the American Jewish experience, weaving a tapestry of tradition and assimilation and, ultimately, of transformation.

Plague of Dreamers: Three Novellas (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)

Humor & Satire

When floods leave town cemeteries unfit for his grandmother's burial and with his parents distracted, young Harry slips out nights to explore Memphis' shady Beale Street

Harry Kaplan's Adventures Underground

Ticknor & Fields

Fiction. "Can't recall where it was I first came across ISAAC AND THE UNDERTAKER'S DAUGHTER and the alliterative no-nonsense monosyllables that gave me the name of its author. Recall only that I straightway made for a typewriter to whip off a love letter. Steve Stern is smart. Steve Stern is eloquent. Steve Stern is knowing. But the best of Steve Stern is the goodly heart whose imprint he impresses onto the page. Here is a mensch-and an artist"-Gordon Lish.

Isaac and the Undertaker's Daughter (Lost Roads, 22)

Contemporary

Lost Roads Publishers

The Moon and Ruben Shein

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Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven

The Angel of Forgetfulness

The Angel of Forgetfulness

Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven

A Plague of Dreamers: Three Novellas

Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)

Plague of Dreamers: Three Novellas (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)

Harry Kaplan's Adventures Underground

Isaac and the Undertaker's Daughter (Lost Roads, 22)

The Moon and Ruben Shein