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Overview

By some incalculable force of human attraction, Alan Krieger has two lovers.

A man of his girth and compulsion, a man who cannot stop talking and who believes the world to be completely irrational, should not take one companion for granted, much less two. Women who can tolerate his anger, his obsessions, and his antic clowning all at the same time are not easy to come by.

But when the thought arises in Alan that he’s been “chosen” to deliver Jewish America from the threat of Anti-Semitism, then all his connections to reality fall away, including those to his lovers and his family. Recalling the folktale of the Golem—the...

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Overview

By some incalculable force of human attraction, Alan Krieger has two lovers.

A man of his girth and compulsion, a man who cannot stop talking and who believes the world to be completely irrational, should not take one companion for granted, much less two. Women who can tolerate his anger, his obsessions, and his antic clowning all at the same time are not easy to come by.

But when the thought arises in Alan that he’s been “chosen” to deliver Jewish America from the threat of Anti-Semitism, then all his connections to reality fall away, including those to his lovers and his family. Recalling the folktale of the Golem—the Frankensteinian giant of clay that saved the Jews in 16th Century Prague—Alan lays out a plan of attack and then sets to making the most outrageous of preparations in the culture wars, in New York City at the turn of the millennium.

Like each of the acclaimed Estrin novels that have preceded it, Golem Song is an allusive, manic, and wildly comic approach to some of the most serious and difficult cultural questions of our time.

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Alan Krieger, a Jewish ER nurse and self-styled "golem of the Grand Concourse," is the antihero of Estrin's third novel, impressive for Alan's verbal pyrotechnics but finally overwhelmed by his motivating pathology. Alan's repulsiveness begins with his grotesquely obese, unhygienic and flatulent body (which is unaccountably appealing to women), but his many minor sins and shortcomings are dwarfed by his outrageous racism. Alan's musings grow increasingly ugly as his interactions with black people in the hospital, on the subway, in the Bronx where he lives, and in Harlem where "they" live both feed and reflect his poisonous obsession. While Estrin foregrounds various prejudices on all sides, it is suffocating to accompany Alan in his accelerating madness, as he sheds the outer skins that make his life at all tenable his family; his girlfriends, a German psychiatrist and a Jewish social worker; his job and hurtles into his fate over the six-month course of the novel. Like Alan, the book's 1999 veers unsteadily between millennial homeboys, Taxi Driver, Bernard Goetz and post-Holocaust Jewish anger, and Alan's ugliness can't hold it all together. (Nov.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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The protagonist of this zany New York Jewish comic novel is emergency nurse Alan Krieger, a sick, delusional, angry screwball trying to save Jewish America from anti-Semitism. He therefore invokes the image of the golem, a clay creature that protected the Jewish community of 16th-century Prague; only Kreiger is a fat would-be golem intent on saving his world from dire consequences that only he perceives. Estrin (Insect Dreams), a writer, cellist, and activist living in Burlington, VT, has written a quirky story that will not be to every reader's delight. There is much shtick on Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, where he lives with his mother, including scenes of a Passover seder with nods to Philip Roth. Other maniacal humor-involving his shiksa girlfriend Ursula or Kristallnacht on the Golem Heights-left this reviewer cold; Jewish humor so deprecating isn't necessarily funny. For collections where Estrin's works are popular.-Molly Abramowitz, Silver Spring, MD Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781932961232
  • Publisher: Unbridled Books
  • Publication date: 11/1/2006
  • Pages: 320
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.10 (d)

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