Background
Galef, David Adam was born on March 27, 1959 in New York City. Son of Harold and Winifred (Kron) Galef.
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How to Cope with Suburban Stress is an enigmatic novel by David Galef, revolving around the life of a psychiatrist and his family. The narrative showcases the complexities and frustrations in their lives while comparing between Good and Evil.
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Though David Galef may be best known for his novels Flesh and Turning Japanese, he has also published over sixty short stories in magazines ranging from the British Punch to the Czech Prague Revue, the Canadian Prism International, and the American Shenandoah. The fifteen stories selected for Laugh Track are an eclectic mix, ranging from a haunting vignette called "You," to "Triptych," the tale of an elementary school teacher whose men in her life include a precocious third-grader. In the title story, a failed comedian brings a recorded laugh track to his regular Wednesday psychoanalytic session. During the sometimes tortuous, often hilarious course of treatment, he finally succeeds in displacing his blocked impulsesi--to the extreme discomfort of his therapist. In "All Cretans," a lovelorn tourist in Greece gets ensnared in a set of ancient philosophical paradoxes. In "The Web of Möbius," what's left of a once-murderous psychotic's life revolves in a bizarrely twisted circle. Laugh Track offers fifteen different worlds--from a blocked expatriate writer in Mexico, to a drug heist gone wrong in downtown Manhattan, to a love affair pursued at the last leper colony in the United States. These are stories that flirt with the veil of fantasy and yet in the end reveal the all-too-vulnerable side of humanity. Like so many people, Galef's characters are searching for something in life that will solve everything--but the results are unpredictable, to say the least. David Galef is an associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi. In addition to his two novels and many short stories, his essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Twentieth Century Literature, and other publications. His eight previous books include Japanese translations, literary criticism, and children's stories. Praise for Flesh: "Galef's candid reflections on Southern culture, his entertaining lampoon of academic manners, and his supporting characters are as uproarious and engaging as his ribald plot." --Library Journal "Flesh is a constantly pleasurable experience to read; it possesses in abundance style and intelligence, and above all a huge zest for life." --D. M. Thomas
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(How to Cope with Suburban Stress is an enigmatic novel by...)
How to Cope with Suburban Stress is an enigmatic novel by David Galef, revolving around the life of a psychiatrist and his family. The narrative showcases the complexities and frustrations in their lives while comparing between Good and Evil.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1442968710/?tag=2022091-20
(How to Cope with Suburban Stress is an enigmatic novel by...)
How to Cope with Suburban Stress is an enigmatic novel by David Galef, revolving around the life of a psychiatrist and his family. The narrative showcases the complexities and frustrations in their lives while comparing between Good and Evil.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1442968478/?tag=2022091-20
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Galef, David Adam was born on March 27, 1959 in New York City. Son of Harold and Winifred (Kron) Galef.
He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1981, after which he lived in Osaka, Japan, for a year. In English from Columbia University in 1984, and a Doctor of Philosophy in literature in 1989.
He received an Master of Arts From 1989 to 2008, he was a professor of English at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, where he administered the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing until 2007. David Galef and his family currently live in Montclair, where he is a professor at Montclair State University. Galef has published thirteen books
In addition, he has written over seventy short stories for magazines ranging from the British Punch to the Czechoslovakian Prague Revue, the Canadian Prism International and the American Shenandoah.
His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, The Village Voice, Twentieth Century Literature, The Columbia History of the British Novel and others His awards include a Henfield Foundation grant, a Writers Exchange award from Poets & Writers, and a Mississippi Arts Council grant, as well as residencies at Yaddo and Ragdale.
( Though David Galef may be best known for his novels Fl...)
(How to Cope with Suburban Stress is an enigmatic novel by...)
(How to Cope with Suburban Stress is an enigmatic novel by...)
(How to Cope with Suburban Stress is an enigmatic novel by...)
(Paperback book, with original Japanese dust cover, 1990.)
(First Edition)
Member Modern Language Association, South Central Modern Language Association, National Council Teachers English, Phi Beta Kappa.