Einstein's Beach House: Stories, by Jacob M. Appel
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A couple adopts a depressed hedgehog; a stranger shows up, claiming to be the father of a girl's imaginary friend; a woman kidnaps her ex-husband's turtle; a family is evicted from their home, but was it ever really theirs? Heartbreaking and hilarious, the eight stories of Einstein's Beach House examine how we deceive ourselves and others, all to arrive at something far more real.
Einstein's Beach House: Stories, by Jacob M. Appel- Amazon Sales Rank: #1237597 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-18
- Released on: 2015-03-18
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review "Jacob Appel captures New York City and its satellites around the turn of the millennium with painful, entertaining accuracy. Lives are coming apart, and coming together, in stories that live with you long after you've read them. Comparisons to Cheever, Trevor, and especially Chekhov can't be helped, but Appel writes with a grace and humor all his own." - Dan O'Brien, author of War Reporter and The Body of an American"Jacob Appel is licensed to give sightseeing tours, and reading Einstein's Beach House certainly cements his qualifications. A capacious curiosity is at work here: Appel's stories move with thirstful purpose, rarely slowing, filled with wry humor and bon mots as we proceed briskly down his fictional paths, invited to examine modern ethical issues along the way. Take this tour--you'll want to give a tip once you reach the end." - Matthew Pitt, author of Attention Please Now"A failed professional ventriloquist, a possibly morose hedgehog and a particularly acute array of parents and their children populate Jacob Appel's impossibly keen Einstein's Beach House -- a collection that takes a sharp look at the moments when we, whether child or adult, see who we truly are and the inevitability of who we will become. Appel's achy, skewed, sometimes heart-breaky world is dense with truth and humor -- the stuff of great literature." - Allison Lynn, author of The Exiles and Now You See It"Sharp, observant, darkly funny and deeply humane." - Kirkus
About the Author Jacob M. Appel is a physician, attorney and bioethicist based in New York City. He is the author of more than two hundred published short stories and is a past winner of the Boston Review Short Fiction Competition, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for the Short Story, the Dana Award, the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction, the North American Review's Kurt Vonnegut Prize, the Missouri Review's Editor's Prize, the Sycamore Review's Wabash Prize, the Briar Cliff Review's Short Fiction Prize, the H. E. Francis Prize, the New Millennium Writings Fiction Award on four separate occasions, an Elizabeth George Fellowship and a Sherwood Anderson Foundation Writers Grant. His stories have been short-listed for the O. Henry Award, Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading and the Pushcart Prize anthology on numerous occasions. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, New York Post, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and numerous other regional newspapers. Jacob holds graduate degrees from Brown University, Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Harvard Law School, New York University's MFA program in fiction and Albany Medical College's Alden March Institute of Bioethics. He taught for many years at Brown University and currently teaches at the Gotham Writers' Workshop and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Amazing collection By rosalie purvis Once again, Appel does not disappoint. His vast, growing and eclectic body of work had yielded this collection of moving, witty and quirky stories. Each one a gem - and each so different from the last. There is something for everyone in here. I highly recommend it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A must read collection of short stories By L. Ruetz Do you know who you are? Did you have insights as a child that you might be on the right, or the wrong path but pushed them aside or did wisdom come as it often does, in hindsight? At what point do you, flaws and all, accept your own reality and just accept what is? Can truth be discovered through deception?It might be hard to get the answers to the above in a single novel but Jacob Appel manages to do all that in eight short stories that perfectly capture the best and worst of the human condition in a way that is relevant, straight forward, engaging, honest and at times, funny.This book is made up of eight stories with eight very different central characters - this is not your normal grouping of stories - you get a depressed hedgehog, a custody battle over a tortoise, a woman who banishes her daughter's imaginary friend only to have a man claiming to be the imaginary friend's father show up (this is my favorite story), a beach house with a made up historical connection, only to have everything turned upside down as reality is put into question and more.In each story the author is able to adapt the writing style and voice appropriately. Sometimes writers have a single style that they use for all characters, but that is not the case here. The vocabulary is richly developed as are the insights into the human condition and way of thinking. The author had this same intense vocabulary in the Biology of Luck, with rich imagery that invokes an instant picture in your mind and that holds true for this book as well. He is certainly an author to keep an eye on.My only complaint is that the book feels far too short and I wanted more.I received a copy of the book for free in exchange for an honest review.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Absolutely amazing, and from a reviewer who typically always has something to complain about. By The Barefoot Reviewer As is very often always the case, I received this book free in exchange for a review. Despite the kindness of receiving a free book I'm absolutely candid about the book because I want everyone to know what they're getting as much as I hope to when I'm shopping.Usually when I'm about to review something I go into a prototypical summary/positives/negatives format but in this case I can't really find anything negative to say so I'm stymied for the last third of the review. This is a keen rarity, as my fiancee will vociferously attest, so it means you should pay heed to what I'm about to say.As you might have read in the summary, this is, of course, a short story collection. Each story is very brief and concise making it easily consumed textually but of complex enough content that you can chew on it for hours afterwards. This is the sort of text that on one hand I yearn to pass on to other readers so that they can have a stab at it but at the same time regret letting go of because I know that the contents will haunt my recollections for years to come.Appel touches profoundly on the topics he seeks to address. What is our relationship with animals and with each other? What does it mean to really own a piece of property? How meaningful is the past and what bearing should that have on our future? Appel's very quick vignettes are windows into the human condition and provoke a world of thought and analysis that surpasses their brevity. It has been a long time since so few pages have made such an impression on this seasoned reader.In summary, this is one of the supreme victories of the genre. Not only is it entertaining but also thought provoking in a way that most books simply and completely are not. Exceptional, and this is from one who regularly and cruelly immolates authors in the fires of heartless criticism.
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