Leib Goldkorn returns! Goldkorn Tales Three Novellas by Leslie Epstein New foreword by Frederick Busch New preface by the author

"An imaginative fiction that satisfies a reader's hunger for writing laced with adventure and wit, moral fervor and surprise. . . . a superb work."—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

Epstein first introduced Leib Goldkorn in "The Steinway Quintet," a novella which received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' award for Distinguished Achievement in Literature. In this volume, Goldkorn—Holocaust survivor, flautist, and pianist—is back in an expanded account of the original novella along with two other long tales that continue his richly comic spiral of misadventures that are at once comedies of manners and serious accounts of culture colliding with casual violence.

First published in 1985.

"With Goldkorn, we laugh out loud, but the laughter only underscores the pain from the excruciating stitch in the world's side."—David Slavitt, Philadelphia Inquirer

"Epstein is an exuberant writer . . . [with] a screwball feeling for comedy that counterpoints the high seriousness of his subjects and invests them, at once, with humanity and a sense of emergency."—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

LESLIE EPSTEIN is the author of seven books of fiction. His second novel, King of the Jews, has become a classic of Holocaust literature. Born in Los Angeles to a family of screenwriters, he attended Yale, UCLA, and, as Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University. For many years he has directed the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. He and his wife live in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Published in cooperation with the Living Writers Course at Colgate University

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Goldkorn Tales
ISBN 0-87074-435-6 paper $12.95

6x9. 264 pp.
Fiction.

Publication Date: September 1998.

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