| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W Contributor(s): Brownstein, Gabriel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393324788 ISBN-13: 9780393324785 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: Winner of the Hemingway/PEN Award, this collection features tales of literary voyeurism, as the narrators look in on other people's lives and make sense of what they see by thinking about the stories they know best. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002023556 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.46 lbs) 223 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Geographic Orientation - New York - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This brilliantly inventive first collection captures the disparate lives of the residents of Manhattan's West 89th Street. Five stories are set in one apartment building, where young Davie Birnbaum watches his neighbors' lives unfold. The title story reworks F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, whose hero is born as an old man and ages in reverse; Brownstein's Button lives on the third floor, fading away toward infancy. In apartment 7E, a lawyer named Zauberman reenacts the life of Hawthorne's Wakefield: he abandons his family so that he can spy on them. Meanwhile, the proctologist in the penthouse plays Icarus and Daedalus with his misfit son. These are tales of literary voyeurism, as the narrators look in on other people's everyday victories and misfortunes--marriages, car accidents, love affairs, and adoptions--and make sense of what they see by thinking about the stories they know best. Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award; Finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award; Chosen as a 2002 Book to Remember by the New York Public Library. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brownstein, Gabriel: - Gabriel Brownstein won the PEN/ Hemingway Award for his collection The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. |