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When Leslie Braverman passes away at the early age of 41, four of his closest friends are reunited on an odyssey through the streets of Brooklyn in a beat-up Volkswagen searching for the funeral parlor. In a series of fits, starts and wrong-turns, the comedic banter that suffuses the journey of these four Jewish proponents of New Criticism and little-magazine writing is quietly transformed into a quest for the intellectual, emotional and sentimental aura of the past.The basis for the 1968 movie "Bye Bye Braverman," "To An Early Grave" is a testament to the exuberant inventiveness of Wallace Markfield's writing.
Hardcover:
9781568494029 | Buccaneer Books, October 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When Leslie Braverman passes away at the early age of 41, four of his closest friends are reunited on an odyssey through the streets of Brooklyn in a beat-up Volkswagen searching for the funeral parlor.
Paperback:
9781564782618 | Dalkey Archive Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $12.50
Product Description: Welcome to Brighton Beach of the 1930s and early '40s as filtered through Simon Sloan, from youth to would-be artist-as-a-young-man at Brooklyn College to the eve of his induction into the army. Wallace Markfield perfectly captures this Jewish neighborhood--its speech, its people, its unique zaniness...read more
Paperback:
9781564782199 | Dalkey Archive Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Welcome to Brighton Beach of the 1930s and early '40s as filtered through Simon Sloan, from youth to would-be artist-as-a-young-man at Brooklyn College to the eve of his induction into the army.
Hardcover:
9780553074239 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 1, 1991, cover price $21.50 | About this edition: Concerned that the new Soviet leader's popularity will threaten the United States' permanent war economy, the U.
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