A spectacular, lavishly comic send-up of the solemn Jewish family saga set in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s. Tells the story of Simon Sloan, from his days of matzo and milk to his marching off to war.
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"Mr. Markfield is a parodist, a relentless jokesmith, a gifted improviser in the Nichols and May tradition." -- Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review, 10/18/1970
"So full is the book with the feel of the times, it would seem that Mr. Markfield, like Joyce, hoped that if all other records disappeared, Brighton Beach could be reconstructed from these pages. . . . It's all great fun, done with much verve and high spirits, a fictional romp during which the author enjoyed himself thoroughly and the reader will too." -- Thomas Lask, New York Times, 10/16/70
"Teitlebaum's Window is a series of brilliant and often brilliantly sustained gags, takeoffs, and blackouts on daily American life in the American Diaspora during the Great Depression. The relish with which it exploits comic potentialities recalls Isaac Babel." -- Marvin Mudrick, Hudson Review, 8/1/70
"So full is the book with the feel of the times, it would seem that Mr. Markfield, like Joyce, hoped that if all other records disappeared, Brighton Beach could be reconstructed from these pages. . . . It's all great fun, done with much verve and high spirits, a fictional romp during which the author enjoyed himself thoroughly and the reader will too." -- Thomas Lask, New York Times, 10/16/70
"Teitlebaum's Window is a series of brilliant and often brilliantly sustained gags, takeoffs, and blackouts on daily American life in the American Diaspora during the Great Depression. The relish with which it exploits comic potentialities recalls Isaac Babel." -- Marvin Mudrick, Hudson Review, 8/1/70
About the Author
Wallace Markfield was born in Brooklyn in 1926. He worked as a ghost writer for a Broadway columnist, a publicity writer for various Jewish social service agencies, and a freelance journalist and critic. His first novel, To an Early Grave, was the basis for the 1968 film Bye Bye Braverman, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring George Segal.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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The funniest growing-up-Jewish-in-the-depression novel ever,
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This novel does everything that a novel can do--Joycean in its range--while remaining utterly realistic and so funny you could die. Best to read on a solitary vacation--if not you will alienate anyone you are with by insisting on reading aloud longer and longer passages.
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Hysterical -- both clinically and comedically,
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I agree with Mark Rutherford - if you don't recognize this milieu and these characters, you are not an American Jewish male of eastern European extraction born in a large U.S. city between 1925 and 1955. Breathtakingly funny, and a kick in the kishkes, too.
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This window needs windex,
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Sorry I started the book.It had been highly recommended, but the author's use of spurious dialogue made reading a chore. Finally put it down when I saw it wasn't going anywhere.
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- The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York City's History by Eric Homberger in Back Matter
- The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman by Bruce Jay Friedman on page 222
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