Steve Stern

• Jan-1983
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. "Can't recall where it was I first came across ISAAC AND THE UNDERTAKER'S DAUGHTER and the alliterative no-nonsense monosyllables that gave me the name of its author. Recall only that I straightway made for a typewriter to whip off a love le...

• Feb-1987
• / General Fiction
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In the pinch, a Jewish neighborhood perched atop the river bluff in Memphis, strange and wonderful things happen: The angel of death pays a visit in a blue serge suit, the voice of God commands Morton Gruber to collaborate on a book, a young boy send...

• Jan-1994
• / General Fiction
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Three novellas about the Pinch, a forgotten Jewish community in a backwater of Memphis, Tennessee, weave a tapestry of lives scarred by the past and transformed by the promise of assimilation and the sacrifices of preceding generations...

• Feb-1997
• / General Fiction
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This collection of comic tales centres on The Pinch - a backwater Jewish community in Memphis - whose citizens refer to themselves as The Lost Tribe. Stern's characters are plagued by history, lust, solitude and the extravagance of their imaginations...

• May-1999
• / General Fiction
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The New York Times has called Steve Stern "a prodigiously talented writer who arrives unheralded like one of the apparitions in his own stories." The Philadelphia Inquirer has said, "Steve Stern is an astonishing writer." Whatever the source, the ...

• Mar-2005
• / General Fiction
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In a trilogy of connected stories that revolve around an unfinished manuscript and a fallen angel's relationship with his half-mortal son in 1900 New York, three people depart from their ordinary lives in the wake of a series of extraordinary adventu...

• Jun-2008
• / General Fiction
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Here in a place dedicated to the manufacture of fear -- a place that one ghoul of a Rebbe declared was located to the North of God, where his jurisdicition no longer held sway -- Velvl found himself developing a certain resistance.

Through num...

• May-2010
• / General Fiction
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Award-winning novelist Steve Stern’s exhilarating epic recounts the story of how a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town ends up in a basement freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end of the twentieth century. What happens when an ...

• Jan-2012
• / General Fiction
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From Stephen L. Stern, writer of Markosia's masterful Beowulf Graphic Novel, and acclaimed artist Douglas A. Sirois, comes this superb full-color adaptation of Dickens' timeless classic. Sacrificing none of Dickens' rich language and filled with cine...

• Sep-2012
• / Literary
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"In the 25 years since [Stern] published his first book, younger Jewish writers have run with a similar shtick . . . But Stern was there first." -- The Toronto Globe and MailThe Book of Mischief triumphantly showcases twenty-five years of outstandin...

• Oct-2012
• / Horror
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Before Lord of the Rings, before Conan there was BEOWULF! The Viking warrior must defeat the ogre Grendel and his vengeful mother before facing the fire-breathing dragon that will spell his doom. This stunning graphic novel captures the power and ma...

• Jun-2015
• / General Fiction
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A dazzling, spellbinding novel set in a mythical Jewish community by the acclaimed author of the New York Times Notable Book The Book of MischiefIt's the late 1960s. The Pinch, once a thriving Jewish community centered on North Main Street in Memphis...

• Jul-2018
• / General Fiction
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Foxy Ladies is the story of Zoe Heller, a talented graphic designer who works her way up the ranks in the advertising department of a major Los Angeles department store in the 1970s. Foxy Ladies is the chronicle of a country emerging from the uphea...

• Sep-2022
• / Historical
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 "A frothy picaresque that ... vibrates to the “sweet celestial confusion” of Soutine’s painting: delirious and earthy, reverent and irreligious." -- The New York Times Book Review A wild, effervescent,...

• Feb-2025
• / General Fiction
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In the ruins of postwar Europe, the world's leading expert on the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism goes on a hair-raising journey to recover sacred books stolen by the Nazis . . .At the end of the Second World War Gershom Scholem, the magisterial schola...

• / General Fiction
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Harry finds himself transplanted from staid and steady Brooklyn in the 1930s and discovers a world that eclipses anything that the Scarlet Pimpernel or Captain Horatio Hornblower could conjure before his inexperienced eyes. His life of excitement is ...