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Reviews of the original 1976 edition:

" Like] something out of the brain of a poetic trash compactor fed on ten years' accumulation of The New York Review of Books and As the World Turns. Cohen is bewitched by the novelty of the novel. He uses plot and language not to tell a story, but to discover and utilize all the lavish possibilities and pleasures these provide. This book is a writer's lark, yet also a benign ramble through the Disneyland of a literary man's literature." (Soho Weekly News)

" Cohen] has put his sophisticated hand...

The Sephardics are the "lost Jews of America"--the dark-skinned descendants of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, who found new homes in the Balkans, the Mideast and North Africa.

Dancing in the Shadows is their fascinating story, told through one unforgettable family.

Dancing in the Shadows is Cohen's novelized treatment of the stories he heard repeatedly from his grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts about the multitude of generations that made up his unique family. Through his retelling, Cohen describes his family's struggles to balance tradition against assimilation. He...

Who is Marvin Cohen? Brooklyn-born New Yorker Marvin Cohen published numerous surreal and whimsical fictions in books and magazines from 1967 to 1982. This anthology showcases the two modes of Cohen's writing: short 'dialogues' operating in the manner of an Ionesco or Beckett script by inverting language with an eschatological hopelessness while revelling, rather than despairing, in life's absurdity, and longer stories displaying Cohen's unique style and knack for shaping language in novel ways: his repetitions, random exclamations, and bestowing on abstract nouns abstract...

50th-anniversary edition of critically acclaimed writer Marvin Cohen's debut fiction. Not quite a novel, the book is best described as a series of humorous philosophical dialogues between the narrator and his "other" self, touching on a vast array of subjects such as birth, love, art, nature, religion, death, and everything in between.

A mere 1,500 hardcover copies of The Self-Devoted Friend were printed in London by publisher Rapp & Carroll Limited in 1967, 750 of which were imported by New Directions Publishing for distribution in the United States. According to...