Author Description

This series of stories begins in Yvonsk, a small Polish town at the beginning of the last century, and sweeps forward in time and place from New York City into the vast landscape of the American West. From the first, and throughout many of the stories the Jewish experience and the Jewish consciousness of the writer emerges. While these stories, in aggregate, can also be seen as the writer's autobiography, as individual pieces, the stories make a new contribution to the literature of American life of the twentieth century.