The title of Melvin Jules Bukiet's latest collection hints at the deceitful nature of its multiple protagonists. An aspiring writer stalks Vladmir Nabokov across midtown Manhattan one afternoon in the summer of Watergate. A young co-ed's seduction of her elderly philosophy professor delivers her an A and him lasting happiness. Max, "a liar and a voyeur, like any true artist," wanders the East Village taking photographs of murder victims. A famous Holocaust survivor "with the big eyes and the big prize" conducts an impromptu circumcision. Ranging from 1895 Prague to the site of a Central American rebellion to the home of a certain Seattle software magnate to the roof of an urban skyscraper, each of these outrageous (though occasionally tender) stories offers keen insight into human nature.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Melvin Jules Bukiet
EAN: 9780393342529
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 0 g
HEIGHT: 203 cm
PUBLISHED BY: WW Norton & Co
DATE PUBLISHED: 2003-01-10
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GENRE: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
WIDTH: 127 cm
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Short stories
[Bukiet is] brilliant, black, and bitterly funny., Bukiet's blend of storytelling brio and audacious imagination calls to mind such disparate maximalists as Rushdie and Mark Helprin., "Bukiet's blend of storytelling brio and audacious imagination calls to mind such disparate maximalists as ... Rushdie ... [and] Mark Helprin.
Melvin Jules Bukiet is the author of eight books of fiction and has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers. He lives in New York City.
