- Alan Isler
Alan Isler, born in 1934, is an American novelist and educator. He left his native England for the United States in 1958 and taught English Literature at Queen’s College at the City University of New York from 1967 to 1995. In 1994 he won the
National Jewish Book Award for his first novel “The Prince of West End Avenue”, which was also a finalist for theNational Book Critics Circle Award . He has subsequently published four other works: “Kraven Images” (1996); “The Bacon Fancier”, also known as “Op.Non.Cit.”, (1999); “Clerical Errors” (2002); and “The Living Proof” (2005).His writing is dense but comical, referential and intellectual in the tradition of
Nabokov , and often concerned with the bitter-sweet condition of the solitary Jew in a Gentile world.Works
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The Prince Of West End Avenue " 1994, a comedy set in a New York Jewish old persons' home, and centred around the retirees’ preparations for their upcoming production ofHamlet .
*"Kraven Images " 1996, partly a hilarious sixties-style sex-romp set in a Bronx College, and partly a mad but mournful attempt to resolve the past in London and Yorkshire.
*"The Bacon Fancier ", also published as "Op. Non. Cit. " 1999, four satirical tales wrought from the sideshows of literature.
*"Clerical Errors " 2002, in which the peregrinations of a Jewish Catholic priest give rise to a fierce yet tender lampoon of Catholicism.
*"The Living Proof " 2005, a famous and anti-Semitic painter hires a Jewish biographer.Persondata
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