The Bible of Dirty Jokes

by Eileen Pollack

Overview

When Ketzel Weinrach’s beloved brother Potsie goes missing in Las Vegas, she not only must try to find him, she must confront her family’s shady history and their ties to the legendary Jewish mob, Murder, Inc., as well as her troubling relationship to her cousin Perry (who runs a strip club on the outskirts of Vegas), her long and apparently not-so-loving marriage to her recently departed husband Morty Tittelman (a self-styled professor of dirty jokes and erotic folklore), and her own failed career as a stand-up comic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945588150
Publisher:	Four Way Books
Publication date:	03/06/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	307
File size:	606 KB

About the Author

EILEEN POLLACK is the award-winning author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction, including Breaking and Entering (Four Way Books 2012) and In The Mouth (Four Way Books 2008). She lives in Manhattan and Ann Arbor and teaches on the faculty of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program in creative writing at the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

Cover Title Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Caveats and Acknowledgments

What People are Saying About This

Sam Lipsyte

“…full of mischief….”

Claire Vaye Watkins

“… one of our finest, and funniest, writers.”

Joshua Henkin

“…a wild romp of a novel.”

Editorial Reviews

In False Alarms, a 1936 Three Stooges short, June Gittelson's character, Minnie, tells Curly: "You'll like me after we get acquainted. I grow on people." Curly responds, "So do warts." Eileen Pollack's new novel, The Bible of Dirty Jokes, also needs to grow on you. Thankfully, the result is a lot more pleasant than a wart…Pollack understands humor well…Ultimately, the book is heartwarming, and addresses some serious issues regarding women's available choices and the way their bodies are used, both literally and figuratively.

The New York Times Book Review - Ilana Masad

"Pollack has crafted a lighthearted family tale with an extended cast of lively characters (even Larry David makes a cameo appearance). . . . The close look at the extended Borscht Belt Jewish community is its own reward. A snappy tale of family and reinvention with a whip-smart heroine driving the action."—Booklist


“Pollack understands humor well, and if her novel is approached as a very long standup routine, the coincidences become much easier to swallow. Ultimately, the book is heartwarming, and addresses some serious issues regarding women’s available choices and the way their bodies are used, both literally and figuratively.”
—New York Times

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