A Horse Walks into a Bar: A novel

A Horse Walks into a Bar: A novel

**WINNER OFÂ THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE**

The award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the To the End of the Land now gives us a searing short novel about the life of a stand-up comic, as revealed in the course of one eveningâ€™s performance. In the dance between comic and audience, with barbs flying back and forth, a deeper story begins to take shapeâ€”one that will alter the lives of many of those in attendance.

In a little dive in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of stand-up. In the audience is a district court justice, Avishai Lazar, whom Dov knew as a boy, along with a few others who remember Dov as an awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually, as it teeters between hilarity and hysteria, Dovâ€™s patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood: we meet his beautiful flower of a mother, a Holocaust survivor in need of constant monitoring, and his punishing father, a striver who had little understanding of his creative son. Finally, recalling his week at a military camp for youthâ€”where Lazar witnessed what would become the central event of Dovâ€™s childhoodâ€”Dov describes the indescribable while Lazar wrestles with his own part in the comedianâ€™s story of loss and survival. Continuing his investigations into how people confront lifeâ€™s capricious battering, and how art may blossom from it, Grossman delivers a stunning performance in this memorable one-night engagement (jokes in questionable taste included).
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 45155360
ReleaseDate 2017-02-21
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780451493972

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	45155360
ReleaseDate	2017-02-21
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780451493972

A Horse Walks into a Bar: A novel

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