In the Foreword to his The Collected Short Fiction Bruce Friedman wrote: In her late years, my mother confessed to me that she had dropped me on my head when I was two. As I've grown older, I've come to believe that her presumably innocent mistake resulted in the 'tilted' quality I've been accused of having in my work. We can now add to the stories in The Collected Short Fiction the splendidly tilted fictions in Three Balconies, vintage Friedman all. In these stories Friedman returns to the Jewish suburbs of New York he explored with his characteristic wit and charm in his earlier stories and...
In the Foreword to his The Collected Short Fiction Bruce Friedman wrote: In her late years, my mother confessed to me that she had dropped me on my he...
The selected plays of Bruce Jay Friedman which include Scuba Duba, Steambath, Sardines and the Trial along with reviews of his work. ..".Friedman is not just a blasphemously funny writer; if you haven't come across a good perception of the Absurd lately, this one is personal and cogent and contemporary." -New York Times "What Friedman, willy-nilly, is telling us from the frazzled depths of his being is that he, they, we are living in a loony bin in which anything goes." - The Nation
The selected plays of Bruce Jay Friedman which include Scuba Duba, Steambath, Sardines and the Trial along with reviews of his work. ..".Friedman is n...
An indefatigable, irresistible, and wildly inappropriate Jewish mother takes her 17-year-old son to school in this uproarious coming-of-age comedy
Tall and scattered-looking, Joseph has just graduated from high school and is ready for college. But is college ready for him? Apparently not, judging by the rejection letter he receives from Bates and the deafening silence that greets his application to Columbia.
While his friends pack their bags for schools across the country, Joseph mopes around the apartment in his bathrobe and checks the mailbox...
An indefatigable, irresistible, and wildly inappropriate Jewish mother takes her 17-year-old son to school in this uproarious coming-of-age comedy<...