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To an Early Grave

Wallace Markfield

To an Early Grave

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When Leslie Braverman passes away at the early age of 41, four of his closest friends are reunited on an odyssey through the streets of Brooklyn in a beat-up Volkswagen searching for the funeral parlor. In a series of fits, starts and wrong-turns, the comedic banter that suffuses the journey of these four Jewish proponents of New Criticism and little-magazine writing is quietly transformed into a quest for the intellectual, emotional and sentimental aura of the past.

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Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Year
1964
ISBN-13
9780671734107
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Death and mourningFriendship and nostalgiaJewish American identity

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