Synopses & Reviews
Epstein first introduced Leib Goldkorn in "The Steinway Quintet," a novella which received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' award for Distinguished Achievement in Literature. In this volume, GoldkornHolocaust survivor, flautist, and pianistis back in an expanded account of the original novella along with two other long tales that continue his richly comic spiral of misadventures that are at once comedies of manners and serious accounts of culture colliding with casual violence.
About the Author
LESLIE EPSTEIN is the author of seven books of fiction. His second novel, King of the Jews, has become a classic of Holocaust literature. Born in Los Angeles to a family of screenwriters, he attended Yale, UCLA, and, as Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University. For many years he has directed the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. He and his wife live in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
The Steinway quintet -- Music of the spheres -- The magic flute.