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May 2001 American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
-- Rabbi Jerry Goldkorn resides in Lud, New Jersey, where Jews from the surrounding states come to bury their dead. Distressed by the lack of living children in the area, the Rabbi's daughter Connie creates a scandal that livens up the town of Lud when she testifies to meeting the Virgin Mary.

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From Publishers Weekly

Elkin "defies death with a glistening tale that is laugh-out-loud hilarious as well as poignant," praised PW . He introduces a "voluble, acerbically witty and deliciously irreverent" rabbi whose business is officiating at the funerals of people he has never met in the necropolis of Lud, N.J.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Rabbi Jerry Goldkorn is the leader of a New Jersey congregation largely comprising dead people: his religious duties primarily consist of a never-ending string of funerals. Compared to his last assignment in the frozen wastes of the Arctic, however, this is a primo gig. Nonetheless, when things seemingly couldn't get any worse, Goldkorn's daughter claims to have had a rendezvous with the Virgin Mary. (LJ 10/15/87)
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Stanley Elkin (1930-1995) was an award-winning author of novels, short stories, and essays. Born in the Bronx, Elkin received his BA and PhD from the University of Illinois and in 1960 became a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis where he taught until his death. His critically acclaimed works include the National Book Critics Circle Award-winners George Mills (1982) and Mrs. Ted Bliss (1995), as well as the National Book Award finalists The Dick Gibson Show (1972), Searches & Seizures (1974), and The MacGuffin (1991). His book of novellas, Van Gogh's Room at Arles, was a finalist for the PEN Faulkner Award.

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