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A Mother's Kisses
Contributor(s): Friedman, Bruce Jay (Author)

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 ISBN: 1504019598     ISBN-13: 9781504019590
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
OUR PRICE: $20.89  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Coming Of Age
- Fiction | Jewish
- Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor
Dewey: 813.54
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.25" W x 8" L (0.74 lbs) 276 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
- Holiday - Mother's Day
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
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Publisher Description:
An indefatigable, irresistible, and wildly inappropriate Jewish mother takes her 17-year-old son to school in this uproarious coming-of-age comedy

Tall and scattered-looking, Joseph has just graduated from high school and is ready for college. But is college ready for him? Apparently not, judging by the rejection letter he receives from Bates and the deafening silence that greets his application to Columbia.

While his friends pack their bags for schools across the country, Joseph mopes around the apartment in his bathrobe and checks the mailbox obsessively. It's enough to make his mother fear for the boy's sanity--so she resolves to take matters into her own hands. What follows is a sidesplitting series of misadventures as Meg, whom the New York Times Book Review called "the most unforgettable mother since Medea," pulls out all the stops to get her boy what he wants.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Bruce Jay Friedman including rare photos from the author's personal collection.

Contributor Bio(s): Friedman, Bruce Jay: - Bruce Jay Friedman lives in New York City. A novelist, short story writer, playwright, memoirist, and screenwriter, he is the author of nineteen books, including Stern (1962), A Mother's Kisses (1964), The Lonely Guy's Book of Life (1978), and Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir (2011). His best-known works of stage and screen include the off-Broadway hit Steambath (1970) and the screenplays for Stir Crazy (1980) and Splash (1984), the latter of which received an Academy Award nomination. As editor of the anthology Black Humor (1965), Friedman helped popularize the distinctive literary style of that name in the United States and is widely regarded as one of its finest practitioners. According to the New York Times, his prose is "a pure pleasure machine."
 
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