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The Last Tale of Mendel ABBE: Sonny Bush and the Wise Men of New Chelm
Paperback
Publisher Price: $12.95
ISBN13: 9780595322695
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Jun 2 2004
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
I congratulate you for it. It's very inventive, makes a lot of head (way) humor by all the name-plays. And the self-conscious narrator is also a fine turn in the narrative. Many laughs, recognitions and delights in the text...and the satiric level is also suggestive and successful...--San Francisco poet and linguist Jack Hirschman
Awakening near Newark, Mendel is incredulous to see the absence in the New York skyline, the clouds of smoke billowing from where the twin towers once stood. His shock becomes more traumatizing when he experiences TV and the government turning the tragic events into a circus of bizarre and misplaced chauvinist rhetoric about the heroism and victimization of the United States in modern history. Driven by angst, and his own nature, Mendel embarks upon a tale taller than the towers to recuperate the sad state of history. For his project he chooses to resurrect a group of foppishly naïve characters from a little known Jewish shtetl in 19th century Poland, people invented by an earlier New Yorker, Solomon Simon, for the amusement of Jewish children. The name of the place: Chelm; of the people: the Wise Men of. And they are coming to the U.S. to help Sonny Bush fix everything. You'll see.
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