The Angel of Forgetfulness (Electronic book text)

T.C. Boyle meets Isaac Bashevis Singer in a virtuoso act of storytelling In his rollicking, colorful new novel, the celebrated Jewish American author Steve Stern interweaves three narratives about characters?two men and an angel?who take flight from their ordinary lives and are plunged into extraordinary circumstances. The story leaps through time and spAce from the Lower East Side of 1910 New York to Prague's famous medieval synagogue, the Altneushul, to a 1960s hippie commune in Arkansas. Stern has created a luminous triumph of the storyteller's art, a potent blend of realism and Jewish mysticism that celebrates the turbulent romance between past and present, art and obsession.