Get Frozen in Time: Twenty Stories PDF

By Joseph Epstein

The estimable Joseph Epstein—essayist, prior editor of The American Scholar, and recipient of the 2003 nationwide Humanities Medal in addition to Hal Holbrook and John Updike—brings jointly twenty brief tales in his first such assortment due to the fact 2010. so much, notwithstanding now not all, of the tales are set in Epstein’s place of birth of Chicago, yet another way they've got various topics: one of the titles are "Dad's Gay," "The Casanova of LaSalle Street," "JDate," "Adultery," "Widow's Pique," "Race Relations," "The guy on Whom every little thing was once Lost," "My 5 Husbands," and "Second Family." so much are tales approximately kin and friendships.

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By Joseph Epstein

The estimable Joseph Epstein—essayist, prior editor of The American Scholar, and recipient of the 2003 nationwide Humanities Medal in addition to Hal Holbrook and John Updike—brings jointly twenty brief tales in his first such assortment due to the fact 2010. so much, notwithstanding now not all, of the tales are set in Epstein’s place of birth of Chicago, yet another way they've got various topics: one of the titles are "Dad's Gay," "The Casanova of LaSalle Street," "JDate," "Adultery," "Widow's Pique," "Race Relations," "The guy on Whom every little thing was once Lost," "My 5 Husbands," and "Second Family." so much are tales approximately kin and friendships.

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