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Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of stand-up in a dive in a small Israeli city. In the audience are some whom Dov knew as a boy, an awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually Dov's patter becomes a kind of memoir: we meet his mother, a Holocaust survivor in need of constant monitoring, and his punishing father, a striver who had little understanding of his creative son; Dov recalls his week at a military camp for youth; and shares a story of loss and survival
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A Horse Walks Into a Bar, David Grossman
- Language
- Released
- 2018
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- David Grossman
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN10
- 1101973498
- ISBN13
- 9781101973493
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, Death, Literary Fiction, Memories, Jewish Literature, Childhood, Israel, Trauma, Sad, Jerusalem, Judges, Comedians, Israeli Literature, Booker Prize
- First published
- 2014
- Original title
- Sus echad nichnas lebar
- Rating
- 3.5 out of 5
- Description
- Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of stand-up in a dive in a small Israeli city. In the audience are some whom Dov knew as a boy, an awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually Dov's patter becomes a kind of memoir: we meet his mother, a Holocaust survivor in need of constant monitoring, and his punishing father, a striver who had little understanding of his creative son; Dov recalls his week at a military camp for youth; and shares a story of loss and survival