Jay Neugeboren

• Mar-1983
• / General Fiction
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This story is about Nathan Malkin who returns to New York from a premature retirement in Israel. He bears a heavy baggage of memory - his parents' marriage, the deaths of his wife and son, and his relationship with his brother. Central to his schemes...

• Jan-1987
• / General Fiction
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this story is set in the backdrop on the day the was finished with everyone rejoicing and a young boy who shares the excitement in the streets with his friends. Only going down a alleyway they encounter some men beating up a young lad and are warned ...

• Dec-1989
• / General Fiction
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Neugeboren's debut collection of stories and third book. The title story, actually a novella, won the Transatlantic Review Novella Award, tells the story of Corky's baseball-playing brother, "probably the most famous guy in our neighborhood in Brookl...

• Nov-1997
• / General Fiction
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Although the voices and settings of these tales are diverse, their central concerns remain constant. Neugeboren explores the precarious nature of family life and those elements--madness, betrayal, loss--that often shape and threaten it. He writes abo...

• Feb-2001
• / General Fiction
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In 1951, sport and greed combined to rock college basketball with scandal and shatter the lives of those involved. Big Mantells the fictional story of one player sent tumbling in the shakedown. For Mack Davis, a black All-American basketball star, th...

• May-2005
• / General Fiction
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Prize-winning novelist Jay Neugeboren's third collection of short stories focuses on Jews in various states of exile and expatriation strangers in strange lands, far from home. These dozen tales, by an author whose stories have been selected for m...

• Mar-2008
• / General Fiction
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"Jay Neugeboren traverses the Hitlerian tightrope with all the skill and formal daring that have made him one of the most honored writers of literary fiction and masterful nonfiction. This new book is, at once, a beautifully realized work of imagi...

• Sep-2009
• / General Fiction
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“[W]andering Jews stray far from their geographical, cultural and spiritual homes . . . [in] an evocative collection from a confident storyteller” (Publishers Weekly).   Prize-winning novelist Jay Neugeboren’s third collecti...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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"Jay Neugeboren’s You Are My Heart is an object lesson in imaginative empathy and observational intelligence. His fiction for years now has had the courage to be quiet and careful and comprehensively humane, but it’s in no way slight. One of his ...

• Dec-2012
• / Literary
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"

Epic...The Other Side of the World can charm you with its grace, intelligence and scope... [An] inventive novel.""-Mark Athitakis,The Washington Post

Charlie is a journeyman whose friend Nick convinces him to move to Singapore, where he fal...

• Mar-2013
• / Historical
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The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company is an enchanting tale set in the silent film era. Beginning in 1915, in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where a Jewish family makes one and two reel silent films, the novel is composed of six chapters, each a disc...

• Jul-2014
• / Literary
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Neugeboren's second novel is the story of Harry Meyers--New York schoolteacher, alienated Jew, aging widower resigned to lonely retirement--and of what happens to him when his uneasy peace is shattered by violence.It is a taut, powerful story, quick ...

• Jul-2014
• / Literary
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Danny is an orphan. He lives in Maimonides Home for Jewish Boys. Danny' 12 years old decides to run away to find a former orphan. He wants to save the home from being closed...

• Dec-2014
• / General Fiction
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The exciting tale of a young Mexican-American man who came of age during the formative years of Texas history   In 1839, José Policarpo Rodriguez came north with his father from Zaragosa, Mexico, to the Republic of Texas. Poli was ten years old whe...

• Feb-2016
• / Historical
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In this bewitching tale, fictional characters,the African American couple Horace and Joleen Littlejohn, interact with a real historical character, boxing champion Max Baer. Presenting themselves as husband and wife, Horace and Joleen are, in fact, br...

• Feb-2024
• / Literary
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A troubled marriage -- and love story -- set against the background of the AIDS pandemic, and the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq lie at the heart of After Camus. Saul Davidoff and Tolle Riordan, who meet during a protest against the Vietnam War, m...