Tag Archives: Bruce Jay Friedman

Violencia!

“[Friedman’s] writing is so funny – and deceptively effortless – critics often liken it to a stand-up comedy routine.”–The New York Times…

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Stern

“What makes Friedman more interesting than most of Malamud, Roth and Bellow is the sense he affords of possibilities larger than the doings and undoings of the Jewish urban bourgeois’.What…

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The Lonely Guy and The Slightly Older Guy

“I love this book!” –Steve Martin…

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The Current Climate

“The Current Climate has a sweet nostalgic richness that sets it apart from the other sequels.” –Playboy

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The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman

“A bona fide literary event.” –Newsweek

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About Harry Towns

“About Harry Towns is a goddamn heartbreaking delight and you are a fool if you miss it. Friedman has created a character unique, haunting, and completely memorable in stories which tickle, depress, gouge below the belt and at a second or third reading hold up as nothing less than a…

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