The Prince of West End Avenue Alan Isler

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In the Emma Lazarus retirement home in uptown Manhattan, the Jewish inmates embark on a chaotic, bitchy production of Hamlet.Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The Prince of West End Avenue Summary

The Prince of West End Avenue by Alan Isler

In the Emma Lazarus retirement home in uptown Manhattan, the Jewish inmates embark on a chaotic, bitchy production of Hamlet. Comedy and tragedy combine as our hero, Otto Korner, directs his quirky, libidinous fellow residents in the play and looks back over his adventures in Germany, Zurich, (where he met Lenin and inadvertently invented Dada), Auschwitz and America. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The Prince of West End Avenue Reviews

"A masterpiece" -- Hugo Barnacle * Independent *
"Alan Isler's novel has been compared with the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Saul Bellow... Can it possibly live up to such praise? It can, it does" -- Anita Brookner * Spectator *
"Masterly, imaginative and provocatively disturbing in its effortless transitions between the comic and the tragic" -- Geoffrey Elborn * Guardian *
"Hilariously funny...a wonderful acheivement. Not since the heyday of Bellow and Heller has language been used to such good effect, at once hilarious and profoundly humane. Not since Malamud have comedy and tragedy and pathos and romance come together so effortlessly" -- Gabriel Josipovici * Jewish Quarterly *
"Poignant, comic and delightfully clever" * Observer *

About Alan Isler

Alan Isler was born in London in 1834. His first novel, The Prince of West End Avenue, was acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. In America it won the National Jewish Book Award and was one of the five fiction nominees for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award. In Britain it won the Jewish Quarterly Fiction Award. He is also the author of the novels, Kraven Images and Clerical Errors, and a collection of novellas, The Bacon Fancier.

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Sku

GOR013566474

ISBN 13

9780099701514

ISBN 10

0099701510

Title

The Prince of West End Avenue by Alan Isler

Author

Alan Isler

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

1996-04-04

Number of pages

256

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins