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Stern [Hardcover]

Bruce J. Friedman (Author)

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Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition (1962)
ASIN: B000NY6OIU
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds

Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book, amazingly witty, surprisingly insightful, March 25, 1998

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Bruce Jay Friedman wrote the screenplay for several movies including "Splash". His book, "Stern" is the story of a man named Stern who has forsaken New York City for a home in the suburbs with his family. Things in paradise quickly collapse when a neighbor yells a slur at Stern's wife and knocks her down. Stern is overcome with a mixture of guilt, fear, anger and dementia. His attempts to confront the neighbor (as well as his own fears) lead to an endless paranoid mind-game and Stern's eventual physical collapse. Yeah - I guess this sounds sort of sad - BUT I guarantee you this book is HILARIOUS!! As in all of Friedman's books - the world of "Stern" is seemingly normal but filled with ridiculous and comic elements. Stern's attempts to face his neighbor, to convince himself that he can "take him" are really funny. I can not recommend this book highly enough. If you have ever felt persecuted or if you are neurotic AT ALL - this is the book for you.

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5.0 out of 5 stars perhaps the funniest book i have ever read, December 17, 1998

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Stern is perhaps the funniest book i have ever read. it has incredible depth and, at the same time, has remained true to the humerous aspect of the story.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended, March 7, 2011

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This is one of the funniest books I have ever read. Required reading for comedy writers. Friedman, one of my favorite comedy writers, takes you to the depths like no other writer. This is a weird classic folks. Not recommended for light reading. Very dark, bleak, and utterly hysterical. I would also highly recommend his short stories as some of the greatest gems in contemporary comedy writing.

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1.0 out of 5 stars unreadable
I am an avid reader & can wrap my mind around just about any genre or author (except epic saga romances) but this book was unreadable to me it was maybe interesting in the 60's... Read more

Published 14 months ago by Michelle L. Faul

2.0 out of 5 stars Fan of BJF, not of this book
Plain and simple, this book is atrocious.

To quote the handwritten note found in the library book I had of this story, "THIS BOOK IS DUMB. IT IS NOT FUNNY." (etc. Read more

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IT WAS a lovely house, seated in the middle of what once had been a pear orchard, and yet it had seemed way out on a limb, a giddy place to live, so far from the protection of Stern's city. Read the first page

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Puerto Rican, Uncle Babe, Air Force, Aunt Edda, Big Jew, Grove Rest Home, Uncle Sweets, Uncle Mackie, New York, Billy One-Foot, Hebrew School, Uncle Henny, Gene Tierney, Let the Jew

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This book cites 8 books:

The Current Climate by Bruce Jay Friedman in Front Matter
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison in Front Matter
About Harry Towns by Bruce Jay Friedman in Front Matter
The Lonely Guy by Bruce Jay Friedman in Front Matter
Tokyo Woes by Bruce Jay Friedman in Front Matter

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