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E-mail: lawrencejepstein@gmail.com
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The
Land of Eighteen Dreams, Lawrence J.
Epstein's first novel, has just been published.
The novel is about Lily Siegel and her grandfather, Benjamin. Lily narrates
eighteen incidents describing their relationship as she grows from age
eight to adulthood. As Benjamin tells her the story of his long and
conflict-filled life starting with his childhood escape from being kidnapped
by the Russian army, he simultaneously offers the wider story of American
Jewish life over the last century and distills the inherited folk wisdom
of the Eastern European Jewish heritage.
Benjamin is gruff and blunt. He sees himself as a mentor and tries to
help Lily learn about the joys and perils of living. He offers a moral
prism through which she can deal with the problems of growing up. Lily
is quick, questioning, distant from her mother and father, and struggling
to understand her world. Her grandfather is her lifeline to that world.
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About
the Author
Lawrence J.
Epstein is a former professor of English at Suffolk Community
College on Long Island where he taught courses in writing and
journalism as well as courses on Jewish Thought and the Holocaust.
He is the author of such Jewish-related books as The Haunted Smile:
The Story of Jewish Comedians in America, At the Edge of a Dream:
The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York's Lower East Side,
1880-1920, and A Treasury of Jewish Anecdotes. He has written
a variety of other books including Mixed Nuts, about American
comedy teams as well as over a hundred articles on Jewish subjects
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