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The Frozen Rabbi by Steve Stern (hardcover)
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And what happens when Bernie Karp, the impressionable fifteen-year-old
son of the couple in whose home the rabbi lies frozen, inadvertently
thaws out the ancient man? Such are the questions raised in this
wickedly funny and ingenious novel by author Steve Stern, who, according
to the Washington Post Book World, belongs in the company of
such writers as Stanley Elkin, Cynthia Ozick, Michael Chabon, Mark
Helprin, and Philip Roth, all of them "innovative and restless
practitioners of contemporary American-Jewish fantasy."
When the
rabbi comes fully and mischievously to life, Bernie finds himself on an
unexpected odyssey to understand his heritage (Jewish), his role in
life (nebbish hero), and his destiny (to ensure the rabbi’s future). and
the reader enters the lives of the people who struggled to transport
the holy man’s block of ice, surviving pogroms, a transatlantic journey
(in steerage, of course), an ice-house fire in Manhattan’s Lower East
Side, and finally, a train trip to the city on the Mississippi.
An
epic novel in the spirit of Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures
of Kavalier and Clay, Steve Stern's The Frozen Rabbi is a
wildly entertaining yet deeply thoughtful look at the burdens inherent
in handing down traditions from one generation to the next.
Read an excerpt here!: http://www.scribd.com/full/31223544?access_key=key-2epwq5b41nzx0lfcyvh6
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