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a novel
By Steven Bloom
"No new jokes" was published by Norton in 1997 - New York, it has 187 pages and the language of the book is English.
“No new jokes” Metadata:
- Title: No new jokes
- Author: Steven Bloom
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 187
- Publisher: Norton
- Publish Date: 1997
- Publish Location: New York
“No new jokes” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Fiction - Joking - Street entertainers - Veterans - World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction, general - New york (n.y.), fiction - World war, 1939-1945, fiction
- Places: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - N.Y.) Brooklyn (New York
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: 187 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL990452M - OL3285498W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 35001877
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 96028799
- ISBN-10: 039304047X
- All ISBNs: 039304047X
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"No new jokes" Description:
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The time is 1949, just before the Korean War - a war that many believed would become World War III. At Bald Sam's luncheonette in Brooklyn, Izzy and his friends Archie Feinstein, Jack Goldfarb, Benny Kubbleman, and Meyer Woolf gather to eat, to watch the Dodgers on TV, and to share their hopes and their fears. But most of all, Izzy and his friends tell jokes. They've heard them all before, but in this time and place, jokes are their best defense against the sense of powerlessness that pervades in a world fraught with uncertainty. Izzy has been a boxer and a World War II soldier; and he carries in his head not only shrapnel from the Battle of Monte Cassino but also the memory of his father lying dead on a muddy street in Poland. Now a street singer, Izzy plays his concertina in the courtyard for a woman who invites him up for companionship and jokes, he reluctantly lets himself be set up on a date with Meyer's niece Celia, and he befriends a troubled librarian, as all the while he struggles to find his way back from his own war.
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