Synopses & Reviews
A Mother's Kisses is the story of Joseph, a tall, scattered looking boy of seventeen and his wonderfully indomitable mother, Meg, who is resolved, in the summer after her son's high-school graduation to start arranging his life for him, even going so far as to accompany him to college. A work of roaring comedy and emotional honesty, A Mother's Kisses is a classic of modern fiction. "Friedman is more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth and Bellow. . . . and more important."--Nelson Algren, The Nation"Synopsizing a Friedman plot is like making a tracing of the Mona Lisa. You can reproduce the shape and dimensions perfectly but nothing that reveals the work's unique quality. . . . A Mother's Kisses is a picaresque novel. . . . The most unforgettable mother since Medea."--New York Times Book Review"Hilarious, mordant. Meg is the most fabulous mother in modern fiction."--Saturday Review"Abounds with brilliant scenes and sufficient comic characters to populate a dozen novels, so rich and profligate is Friedman's inventiveness. A marvelously gifted novelist."--Newsweek
Synopsis
A Mother's Kisses is the story of Joseph, a tall, scattered looking boy of seventeen and his wonderfully indomitable mother, Meg, who is resolved, in the summer after her son's high-school graduation to start arranging his life for him, even going so far as to accompany him to college. A work of roaring comedy and emotional honesty, A Mother's Kisses is a classic of modern fiction.
Synopsis
A Mother's Kisses is the story of Joseph, a tall, scattered looking boy of seventeen and his wonderfully indomitable mother, Meg, who is resolved, in the summer after her son's high-school graduation to start arranging his life for him, even going so far as to accompany him to college. A work of roaring comedy and emotional honesty, A Mother's Kisses is a classic of modern fiction.
About the Author
Bruce Jay Friedman is the author of seven novels (including The Dick, Stern, and A Mother's Kisses), four collections of short stories, a number of plays-among them Scuba Duba and Steambath-and screenplays for the movies Splash and Stir Crazy.