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      The Prince of West End Avenue

      by Alan Isler
      Published
      Aug 1995
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      256
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      In the Emma Lazarus retirement home in uptown Manhattan, the Jewish inmates embark on a chaotic, bitchy production of Hamlet.Comedy and tragedy combine as our hero, Otto Korner, directs his quirky, libidinous fellow residents in the play and looks back over his adventures in Germany, Zurich, (where he met Lenin and inadvertently invented Dada), Auschwitz and America.Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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      First Edition Aug 1995 Penguin ISBN 0140245146
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      Apr 1996 Vintage (UK) ISBN 0099701510
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      Apr 1994 Bridge Works Publishing Company ISBN 1882593049
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