The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff

In his first collection of stories since "Fabulous Small Jews," Joseph Epstein delivers all the pleasures his readers have come to expect: stories of ordinary men confronting the moments that define a life, told with the bittersweet humor and loving irony encompassed in the title of the book. These fourteen tales map a very particular world--Jews whose lives are anchored in Chicago--in rich, revealing detail even as they brim with universal longings: complex love affairs and...
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In his first collection of stories since "Fabulous Small Jews," Joseph Epstein delivers all the pleasures his readers have come to expect: stories of ordinary men confronting the moments that define a life, told with the bittersweet humor and loving irony encompassed in the title of the book. These fourteen tales map a very particular world--Jews whose lives are anchored in Chicago--in rich, revealing detail even as they brim with universal longings: complex love affairs and unspoken rivalries, family triumphs and private disappointments. Epstein, who "happens to possess a standup comic's gift for punch lines" ("New York Times Book Review"), brings his emphatically grown-up characters to witty, rueful, and charming life. "The Love Song of A. Jerome Minkoff" is a marvelous collection from a master of the short form and one of the most distinctive writers working in America today.