To an early grave
By: Wallace Markfield.
Edition: 1st Dalkey Archive ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Normal, IL]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Fiction; Male friendship -- Fiction; Intellectuals -- Fiction; Jewish men -- Fiction; Authors -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "When Leslie Braverman passes away at the early age of 41, four of his closest friends are reunited on an odyssey through the streets of Brooklyn in a beat-up Volkswagen searching for the funeral parlor. In a series of fits, starts and wrong-turns, the comedic banter that suffuses the journey of these four Jewish proponents of New Criticism and little-magazine writing is quietly transformed into a quest for the intellectual, emotional and sentimental aura of the past."--BOOK JACKET.