By some incalculable force of human attraction, Alan Krieger has two lovers.

A man of his girth and compulsion, a man who cannot stop talking and who believes the world to be completely irrational, should not take one companion for granted, much less two. Women who can tolerate his anger, his obsessions, and his antic clowning all at the same time are not easy to come by.

But when the thought arises in Alan that he's been "chosen" to deliver Jewish America from the threat of Anti-Semitism, then all his connections to reality fall away, including those to his lovers and his family. Recalling the folktale of the Golem--the Frankensteinian giant of clay that saved the Jews in 16th Century Prague--Alan lays out a plan of attack and then sets to making the most outrageous of preparations in the culture wars, in New York City at the turn of the millennium.

Like each of the acclaimed Estrin novels that have preceded it, Golem Song is an allusive, manic, and wildly comic approach to some of the most serious and difficult cultural questions of our time.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Published: 11/01/2006
ISBN: 9781932961232
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.00w x 0.93d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/18/2006 pg. 33
Library Journal 11/15/2006 pg. 55
Booklist 11/15/2006 pg. 31