Background
Stern was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1947, the son of a grocer.
( The New York Times has called Steve Stern "a prodigious...)
The New York Times has called Steve Stern "a prodigiously talented writer who arrives unheralded like one of the apparitions in his own stories." The Philadelphia Inquirer has said, "Steve Stern is an astonishing writer." Whatever the source, the critics agree that Stern offers immense delight, and outright laughs, throughout his award-winning books. The Wedding Jester offers a new chance to journey to Stern's magical Jewish otherworld-- where fantastical events are commonplace, and rabbis-- sometimes frequently-- take flight.
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(Eine scharfsinnige Gesellschaftssatire, eine skurrile Zei...)
Eine scharfsinnige Gesellschaftssatire, eine skurrile Zeitreise und ein spannender Familienroman Beim Durchwühlen der Gefriertruhe stößt der gelangweilte Teenager Bernie Karp zwischen Tiefkühlpizzas und Koteletts zufällig auf einen Eisblock, in dem ein bärtiger alter Mann eingefroren ist. Ein Rabbi, wie seine ebenso gelangweilten Eltern ihm erklären, der innerhalb der Familie als eine Art Talisman über Generationen weitergereicht wurde. Bei einem Stromausfall geschieht das Unglaubliche: Der Rabbi taut auf und erwacht zu neuem Leben. Der aus der Zeit gefallene heilige Mann entwickelt ungeahnte Energien und entdeckt lukrative Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten in der modernen Welt. Während der Rabbi in einem Einkaufszentrum das „Haus der Erleuchtung” gründet und gestressten Managern und frustrierten Hausfrauen das Seelenheil verkauft, glaubt Bernie, endlich einen Sinn in seinem Leben gefunden zu haben. Er findet nach und nach heraus, wie der gefrorene Geistliche von einem polnischen Schtetl des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts in eine Gefriertruhe im Memphis der Gegenwart geraten ist, und will das Familienerbe bewahren. Doch der Rabbi macht nichts als Ärger. Der vielfach preisgekrönte Autor gilt als legitimer Nachfolger von Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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( Award-winning novelist Steve Stern’s exhilarating epic ...)
Award-winning novelist Steve Stern’s exhilarating epic recounts the story of how a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town ends up in a basement freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end of the twentieth century. What happens when an impressionable teenage boy inadvertently thaws out the ancient man and brings him back to life is nothing short of miraculous.
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(The nine stories in this collection all share either the ...)
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.
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T.C. Boyle meets Isaac Bashevis Singer in a virtuoso act of storytelling In his rollicking, colorful new novel, the celebrated Jewish American author Steve Stern interweaves three narratives about characters—two men and an angel—who take flight from their ordinary lives and are plunged into extraordinary circumstances. The story leaps through time and space from the Lower East Side of 1910 New York to Prague’s famous medieval synagogue, the Altneushul, to a 1960s hippie commune in Arkansas. Stern has created a luminous triumph of the storyteller’s art, a potent blend of realism and Jewish mysticism that celebrates the turbulent romance between past and present, art and obsession.
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(Here in a place dedicated to the manufacture of fear—a pl...)
Here in a place dedicated to the manufacture of fear—a place that one ghoul of a Rebbe declared was located to the North of God, where his jurisdicition no longer held sway—Velvl found himself developing a certain resistance. Through numerous books and stories, Steve Stern has become known for his fantastical (and often wildly comic) stories based on yiddish folklore—Harold Bloom has called him "a throwback to the Yiddish sublime." But with this novella, Stern matches his reverential understanding of that ancient story-telling's power against something he's never written about before: the Holocaust. The result is a mesmerizing tour-de-force: In a boxcar crammed with Jews headed to a concentration camp, one man attempts to summon up a story vital enough to displace the horror. The story that comes out is ultimately a swirling, sweeping saga about the stirring obstinacy of the human spirit. And by confronting the ultimate horror with the mythology he has long celebrated, it may also be the crowning achievement of Stern's career. The Contemporary Art of the Novella series is designed to highlight work by major authors from around the world. In most instances, as with Imre Kertész, it showcases work never before published; in others, books are reprised that should never have gone out of print. It is intended that the series feature many well-known authors and some exciting new discoveries. And as with the original series, The Art of the Novella, each book is a beautifully packaged and inexpensive volume meant to celebrate the form and its practitioners.
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Stern was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1947, the son of a grocer.
University of Arkansas.
Much of his work draws inspiration from Yiddish folklore. He left Memphis in the 1960s to attend college, then to travel the United States and Europe — living, as he told one interviewer, "the wayward life of my generation for about a decade," and ending on a hippie commune in the Ozarks. He went on to study writing in the graduate program at the University of Arkansas, at a time when it included several notable writers who"ve since become prominent, including poet Communicative Disorders Wright and fiction writers Ellen Gilchrist, Lewis Nordan, Lee K. Abbott and Jack Butler.
Stern subsequently moved to London, England, before returning to Memphis in his thirties to accept a job at a local folklore center.
There he learned about the city"s old Jewish ghetto, The Pinch, and began to steep himself in Yiddish folklore. He published his first book, the story collection Isaac and the Undertaker"s Daughter, which was based in The Pinch, in 1983. whiplash sentences.. energy and charm," and observed that "Steve Stern may be a late practitioner of the genre" of Yiddish folklore, "but he is an expert one."
He currently lives in Ballston Spa, New York, and his latest work, the novel The Frozen Rabbi, was published in 2010.
(Eine scharfsinnige Gesellschaftssatire, eine skurrile Zei...)
( Award-winning novelist Steve Stern’s exhilarating epic ...)
(Here in a place dedicated to the manufacture of fear—a pl...)
(The nine stories in this collection all share either the ...)
( The New York Times has called Steve Stern "a prodigious...)
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(T.C. Boyle meets Isaac Bashevis Singer in a virtuoso act ...)