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Teitlebaum's Window by Markfield, Wallace is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Teitlebaum's Window about?

<p>a Spectacular, Lavishly Comic Send-up Of Every Solemn Jewish Family Saga Ever Written. Simon Sloan Records This Story Of Growing Up In Brooklyn In His Journal-diary. He Takes The Reader Through The 1930s And 1940s As He Interacts With The People In His Life: Clare, Maxine, And Helene, The Women With Whom He Spends His Adolescence; Malvena, His Mother Who Was So Consumed With Motherhood That She Ate Certain Foods To Enrich The Flavor Of Her Milk; Teitlebaum, The Kosher Deli Owner In Whose Window Simon And The Reader Are Informed Of The Various Happenings Of The Times. A Huge, Extravagantly Real And Comic And Life-embracing Novel.</p><h3>thomas Lask</h3><p>so Full Is The Book With The Feel Of The Times, It Would Seem That Mr. Markfield, Like Joyce, Hoped That If All Other Records Disappeared, Brighton Beach Could Be Reconstructed From These Pages. . . . It's All Great Fun, Done With Much Verve And High Spirits, A Fictional Romp During Which The Author Enjoyed Himself Thoroughly And The Reader Will Too.<br>thomas Lask, New York Times, 10/16/70</p>

Who reads Teitlebaum's Window?

Author

Markfield, Wallace

Publisher

Dalkey Archive ; Turnaround

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781564782199

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

2.67 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14