Covet the Oven: 20 Short Stories of the Head, the Heart, and Writing

This book of new stories by novelist and short story writer Jerome Mandel tells tales of the head, the heart, and writing – some gritty, some witty, some smooth.


With intelligence, sympathy, and a wry, often comic irony, they address loss and love, puzzlement and growing old, choices. In these stories cars break down, people make surprising announcements or do unexpected things. They die or don’t or can’t or sell metaphors.


Some people fall in love, misplace love, lose love. Some survive and thrive; others don’t. We learn more about them than they do.


"Jerome Mandel is an excellent writer. He brings to his stories deep compassion, emotional understanding, blended with scholarship and refinement." -Leslie Blanchard, Writer's Choice-

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Covet the Oven: 20 Short Stories of the Head, the Heart, and Writing

This book of new stories by novelist and short story writer Jerome Mandel tells tales of the head, the heart, and writing – some gritty, some witty, some smooth.


With intelligence, sympathy, and a wry, often comic irony, they address loss and love, puzzlement and growing old, choices. In these stories cars break down, people make surprising announcements or do unexpected things. They die or don’t or can’t or sell metaphors.


Some people fall in love, misplace love, lose love. Some survive and thrive; others don’t. We learn more about them than they do.


"Jerome Mandel is an excellent writer. He brings to his stories deep compassion, emotional understanding, blended with scholarship and refinement." -Leslie Blanchard, Writer's Choice-

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Covet the Oven: 20 Short Stories of the Head, the Heart, and Writing

Covet the Oven: 20 Short Stories of the Head, the Heart, and Writing

by Jerome Mandel
Covet the Oven: 20 Short Stories of the Head, the Heart, and Writing
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Covet the Oven: 20 Short Stories of the Head, the Heart, and Writing

by Jerome Mandel

Overview

This book of new stories by novelist and short story writer Jerome Mandel tells tales of the head, the heart, and writing – some gritty, some witty, some smooth.


With intelligence, sympathy, and a wry, often comic irony, they address loss and love, puzzlement and growing old, choices. In these stories cars break down, people make surprising announcements or do unexpected things. They die or don’t or can’t or sell metaphors.


Some people fall in love, misplace love, lose love. Some survive and thrive; others don’t. We learn more about them than they do.


"Jerome Mandel is an excellent writer. He brings to his stories deep compassion, emotional understanding, blended with scholarship and refinement." -Leslie Blanchard, Writer's Choice-

Product Details

BN ID: 2940168086592
Publisher: Next Chapter
Publication date: 04/26/2024
Sold by: PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format: eBook
Pages: 150
File size: 350 KB

About the Author

Jerome Mandel, sometime Chair of the English Department at Tel Aviv University and now Professor Emeritus, is the first-place winner of the P.E.N.-UNESCO International Short Story Competition (1997) for 'Third Time, Ice Cream.' His first book of stories, Nothing Gold Can Stay: 18 Stories of Israeli Experience appeared in 1999. Most of the stories in his new book, Covet The Oven, are American. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, educated at Oberlin and Ohio State, moved to Israel in 1978, and lives in the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv. A complete vita, samples of his academic work, and sample short stories available to read for free appear on his website.
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