LITTLE MEN: NOVELLAS AND STORIES (Ohio State Univ Prize in Short Fiction) [Hardcover]

GERALD SHAPIRO (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 219 pages
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press; 1 edition (June 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814209602
• ISBN-13: 978-0814209608
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,076,755 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I hope *you* discover this writer!, August 18, 2005

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This review is from: LITTLE MEN: NOVELLAS AND STORIES (Ohio State Univ Prize in Short Fiction) (Hardcover)

The publishing of Gerald Shapiro's book Little Men is a built-in pro-argument for university publishing houses (in this case: Ohio State University). Will this book comprised of a couple of novellas as well as short stories make money? Who knows? First principles first: Publish!

As hilarious as the opening novella A Box Of Ashes, is with a laugh-a-minute (you can time yourself on this) pacing; it is the closing novella Spivak in Babylon that hit this reader with especial poignancy. In the story's closing pages, Mr. Shapiro doesn't tie-up in a neat bow, the dirty deeds chronicled about Leo Spivak. Instead he opts for a utterly realistic 'how-it-is'and 'how-it-it'will-be' when you go down that road to perdition and betrayal of everything/anything dear to your life.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smart and funny like Roth and Malamud, July 10, 2004

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This review is from: LITTLE MEN: NOVELLAS AND STORIES (Ohio State Univ Prize in Short Fiction) (Hardcover)

I read a lot of Jewish American fiction. And most of it is either too Jewish or too literary for my taste. But this collection reminds me of the smart and funny stuff written by Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Bruce Friedman and Joseph Epstein. The stories explore modern Jewish male angst, guilt and sex, imperfect pasts, presently impossible relatives and there's even some Eighties style drug use. In short, they're contemporary without being terminally hip. Worth your time and money.