David Grossman
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| Title | : | A Horse Walks into a Bar |
| Author | : | David Grossman |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 198 pages |
| Published | : | November 10th 2016 by Jonathan Cape (first published August 2014) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Israel. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Literature. Jewish |
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The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian coming apart on stage, an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice, before their eyes. They could get up and leave, or boo and whistle and drive him from the stage, if they were not so drawn to glimpse his personal hell. Dovale Gee, a veteran stand-up comic – charming, erratic, repellent – exposes a wound he has been living with for years – a fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him.A Horse Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read. Betrayals between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress. On stage the comic is torn between his commitment to his audience and the debt he owes to himself. Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovale Gee provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry – and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is trying to understand why he’s been summoned to this performance.
David Grossman has reached yet another literary peak that is emotionally equal to his previous books and stunning, even outrageous, in its inventions and complexity.
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| Original Title: | סוס אחד נכנס לבר |
| ISBN: | 1910702935 (ISBN13: 9781910702932) |
| Literary Awards: | PEN Translation Prize Nominee for Jessica Cohen (2018), International Booker Prize (2017) |
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Ratings: 3.53 From 10245 Users | 1508 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books A Horse Walks into a Bar
I expected to like this Man Booker Prize winner, being both a literature lover and a Jew. I was disappointed to be a protester in a crowd of praise. It took me a while to decide to post a review, but, after reading Nicole Krausss elegantly poised and unique new novel, FOREST DARK, that contained some parallel themes, I felt unsatisfied and turned off by David Grossmans story.The framework was clever and easily captured my attention. A stand-up comic, Dov Greenstein, now in his 50s, is at the end"A man walks into a bar. Ouch!" (Credit Jason Fowles 1998)A duck walks into a bar, orders a drink, and tells the bartender, put it on my billAnonymous, though probably somebody in my family on a holiday weekend would take credit for inventing it.I finished listening to A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman, which I thinkif done well, and it is, by Joe Barrett in the flat, gruff noir style he also brings to reading Richard Stark and Lawrence Block, among othersis the best way to experience a
Video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdFCn...Featured in my Top 20 Books I Read in 2017Exploits beautifully the way stand-up comedy, when stripped of a comedian's showmanship and turned into pure text, fully uncovers its destructive potential. Which does not mean the novel isn't hilarious. (Which doesn't mean it isn't one punch-in-the-face of a book).
In Stephen King's book It, the characters who come together to stand up to evil had done it before as children, but had forgotten. In A Horse Walks into a Bar, too, the comedian and his beneficiary, the judge, had met before, when they were children, but only the judge had forgotten. When the action between them starts up again, the judge is cautiously warding off the return of memory. He even dumps on the comedian, who for some unknown reason is soliciting his presence at an upcoming show. The
Why the long face? Did someone die? Its only stand-up comedy! Except that for the comedian himself, Dovaleh Greenstein, this swan song of a show in the Israeli town of Netanya devolves into the story of the most traumatic day of his life. Grossman has made what seems to me an unusual choice of narrator: Avishai Lazar, a widower and Supreme Court justice, and Dovs acquaintance from adolescence they were in the same military training camp. Dov has invited him here to bear witness, and by the end
Despite the title of this book, it is not going to make you laugh. It is a compulsive and harrowing read. It is about Jewish history, the dysfunctional nation of Israel and its people, where the political is heartbreakingly personal. The narrative covers two hours of a middle aged stand up comic's routine, albeit an unusual one where Dovaleh Greenstein spews forth the horrors that have comprised his life. It is set in a club in Netanya, with a broad section of Israeli society watching him as he
A carousel of emotions and layers. Deep, as personal as political, seductive while often uneasy. Very emotional life story wrapped in 2 hours performance of Israeli standup comedian... Video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d627e...
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