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A horse walks into a bar / David Grossman ; translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen.
Author
Grossman, David
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Uniform title
Sus echad nichnas lebar.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Jonathan Cape, 2016.
Description
197 pages ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PJ5054.G728 S8813 2016
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Subject(s)
Comedians
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Israel
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Fiction
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Nightclubs
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Israel
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Fiction
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Israel
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Fiction
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Translator
Cohen, Jessica (Translator)
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Domestic fiction
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Related work(s)
גרוסמן, דויד, 1954-
סוס אחד נכנס לבר
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Summary note
The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice, before their eyes. They could get up and leave, or boo and whistle and drive him from the stage, if they were not so drawn to glimpse his personal hell. Dovaleh G, a veteran stand-up comic charming, erratic, repellent exposes a wound he has been living with for years: a fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him. A Horse Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read. Betrayals between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress. Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn't know whether to laugh or cry and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is trying to understand why he's been summoned to this performance.
Language note
Translated from the Hebrew.
ISBN
9781910702932
1910702935
9780451493972
0451493974
LCCN
2016497652
OCLC
930825102
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