The peace process
Subtitle: a novella and stories
By: Bruce Jay Friedman
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781504011730
Subjects: Jewish men; American Short stories; Fiction
Description: Silenced by the horrors of Nazi Germany, a Jewish satirist is inspired to write again by his biggest fan: Joseph Goebbels. A retired English teacher dies on the operating table and wakes up to an afterlife in which literature does not exist; he can claim any masterpiece as his own, from The Catcher in the Rye to Crime and Punishment--if only he can remember what actually happens in those stories. On his first trip to the Holy Land, a down-on-his-luck filmmaker reluctantly agrees to help a young Israeli Arab escape to New York, only to watch in dismay as the upstart lands a buxom, Yiddish-speaking girlfriend and a monster movie deal..."The Peace Process" is vintage Friedman -- fourteen finely crafted tales that take dead aim at the sweet spot between pleasure and pain.
Table of contents: title: The big sister --; title: The storyteller --; title: And where she stops... --; title: Any number of little old ladies --; title: The movie buff --; title: A fan is a fan --; title: The friendship --; title: Orange shoes --; title: The choice --; title: Nightgown --; title: The strainer --; title: The savior --; title: The impulse --; title: The peace process.