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Are You Listening Rabbi Low

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This is a damn fine book. Yes, it beats you about the head and face with its raw humor, which is relentless, and yes the lead character is beyond redemption, as if that matters. And yes, the plot is just one impossible pickle after another for this poor guy! And all of his own creation. But the point of the book is not anti-semitism (as has been suggested in the review up top here on amazon), it's the story of a man who, like all Donleavy characters, is inexorably caught between high aspirations and low desires, and knows it.

To top it off, the patented Donleavy prose is in fine form as always.

This book is insane. Hilarious. One of my favorites. I know no one who has read it or Schultz. My brother has read Balthazar and Gingerman and Darcy Dancer. I was telling him about the Schultz character and his escapades and had him rolling. Schultz gets himself admitted to the hospital to escape his irate wife. He decides to have a party, although inwardly he is conflicted. He has champagne delivered and all the other necessaries. He seduces the nurse (of course). The Lord Nectarine character is an amazing, subtle literary foil to Schultz's capers. As always well written but I haven't laughed as hard while reading a book since I read this a couple of years ago. I reread Gingerman. Not as funny.