Blue
Subtitle: a novel
By: Benjamin Zucker.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Woodstock, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Diamond industry and trade -- Fiction; City and town life -- Fiction; Jewish men -- Fiction; Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "At the center of Blue is Abraham Tal, a gem merchant in New York City, and the Venetian Jewish wedding ring, with its radiant blue roof, which grounds him to this past and represents his hopes for the future.".

"And Tal's story itself is, page by page, surrounded by the tales of other characters, real and imagined - literary, artistic, fictional, religious, and historical figures whose stories combine to give the central narrative unique texture and depth.

Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Bob Dylan, Elie Wiesel, Chief Crazy Horse, various Jewish mystics and rabbis, Vermeer, Kierkegaard, Tal's mother, his father, his girlfriend - all are allowed their commentaries, often in the form of parallel stories from their own lives."--BOOK JACKET.