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"These eighteen stories feature Jewish characters across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and dealing with the tensions between individual and group identity. Several are set in New Jersey, Oregon, and North Carolina in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as 1930s New York or Soviet Union. Some are set in Europe, shortly before, during, or after the Holocaust. Historical characters include artist Louise Nevelson and actor Zero Mostel"--

Produktbeschreibung
"These eighteen stories feature Jewish characters across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and dealing with the tensions between individual and group identity. Several are set in New Jersey, Oregon, and North Carolina in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as 1930s New York or Soviet Union. Some are set in Europe, shortly before, during, or after the Holocaust. Historical characters include artist Louise Nevelson and actor Zero Mostel"--
Autorenporträt
Scott Nadelson grew up in northern New Jersey before escaping to Oregon, where he has lived for the past twenty-four years. He has published four collections of short stories, The Fourth Corner of the World, named a Jewish Fiction Prize Honor Book by the Association of Jewish Libraries; Aftermath; The Cantor's Daughter; and Saving Stanley: The Brickman Stories ; and a memoir, The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress. His novel Between You and Me was published by Engine Books in 2015. Winner of the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and an Oregon Book Award, Scott's work has appeared in a variety of magazines and literary journals, including Ploughshares, The Southern Review, New England Review, Harvard Review, Glimmer Train, and Crazyhorse, and his work has been cited as distinguished in both the Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays anthologies. He teaches at Willamette University, where he is Hallie Brown Ford Chair in Writing, and in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University.