Bruce Jay Friedman

• Jan-1971
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A parade of unforgettable characters emerge from the steam in this hilarious, supernatural bathhouse. There is Tandy, fresh from teaching art appreciation at the Police Academy; Meredith, whose last memory is buying a micro-miniskirt; Biberman, a kar...

• Sep-1984
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• Jun-1985
• / General Fiction
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In this laugh-out-loud travelogue, an average American man journeys to a country unlike any other: 1980s Japan Early one morning, Mike Halsey leaves his sleeping girlfriend and his house deep in the woods to go out and buy the morning paper. His...

• Oct-1995
• / General Fiction
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An anthology of short stories from the past forty years by the co-author of the screenplay for Splash! combines social satire, black humor, surrealism, and poignant situations. 20,000 first printing....

• Sep-1996
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A ridiculously funny novel about a devoted single dad who becomes an international hit man from the author of A Mother’s Kisses After losing his job as a poultry distributor, William Binny spends his mornings at the local diner polishing off a...

• Nov-2000
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An “irresistible” collection of short fiction by an author who “has been likened to everyone from J. D. Salinger to Woody Allen” (The New York Times Book Review).   Hailed by Newsweek as “a bona fide literary event,” The Collect...

• Nov-2000
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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...

• Jan-2001
• / Literary
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Screenwriter Harry Towns continues his misadventures in this novel from a New York Times�"bestselling author and “witty chronicler of urban angst” (San Francisco Chronicle).   Set in late-1980s New York, this novel continues the story of Ha...

• Jan-2001
• / General Fiction
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New York Times-Bestselling Author: A Jewish man struggles in midcentury suburbia in this dark comic novel “in the tradition of the Charlie Chaplin movie.” -- Time   The first novel by Bruce Jay Friedman, the author of such classics as The Lo...

• Nov-2001
• / Literary
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The New York Times�"bestselling author finds the pulse of the aging American male in two ingeniously funny novels. “I just laughed myself sick” (Neil Simon).   Two classic works of comic self-help fiction by “one of the funniest writers i...

• Nov-2001
• / General Fiction
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An ex-NYPD clerk teams up with a shady Broadway producer for a disastrous musical comedy in this hilarious novel by the New York Times�"bestselling author . . .   In addition to his desk job at the precinct, Paul Gurney has long...

• Sep-2008
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Three Balconies brings together 17 new stories by the celebrated humorist, vintage Friedman all. In sumptuously simple language, the language of the street, the bar, the store, the office, Friedman gives us a collection of moral fables that explores...

• Sep-2015
• / Police Procedural
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A pencil-pushing policeman becomes a badass sleuth in this off-the-wall detective story from one of America’s funniest writers Kenneth LePeters (née Sussman) is a “quasi-dick.” A public relations man for homicide bureaus, he carries a half-siz...

• Oct-2015
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A brilliant new collection from one of American literature’s most original and hilarious purveyors of dark comedy Silenced by the horrors of Nazi Germany, a Jewish satirist is inspired to write again by his biggest fan: Joseph Goebbels. A retire...