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In this comic-tragic novel, we follow Tommy M., who has written speeches for some very important people, in his so-suave, so certain sophistication toward his so-boorish, so-certain downfall. As Tommy becomes more uncertain; as he encounterstall Aunt Maria and her gypsy potions; as he is physically tripped-no less-by the "chief rabbi of Venice," who claims to have posed for a canvas by Antonio Canaletto; as he watches faces dissappear and reappear along the Venetian calle and waterways directly from Grecian times is after you, Tommy, isn't it? And your fine male nonchalance and coy humor won't help in the least when its long, fine talons grab hold...
Rarely will you read the heavy hand of tragedy played so lightly. It's as if Leviant were a transmigrated Vivaldi whose strains had dipped into Venice's canals to find-surprise!-both Verdi and Sophocles.
Curt Leviant was also a Writing Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and won Fellowships from the internationally competitive Rockefeller Foundation and the Jerusalem Foundation. His stories and novellas have appeared in Midstream, Zoetrope, Confrontation, American Literary Review, North American Review, Ascent, Missouri Review, Tikkun, and many other magazines. They have also been reprinted in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and other anthologies. His new novel, Diary of an Adulterous Woman, will be published in autum of 2000.
He has also translated several books by Sholom Aleichem and is working on translations of Issac Bashevis Singer.
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