A dark and beautiful tale of a most unusual schoolWolf Walker is the director of the Suicide Academy. Troubled individuals come to his school for just one day and must decide whether to end their lives. As for Wolf himself, he is suffering a kind of death-in-life. The Academy's board members have involved him in a policy skirmish, and the depressed employee he had an affair with is not getting any better. When his ex-wife, Jewel, and her husband come on the scene, o...

After a tour of combat abroad, a young man determined to keep to himself is drawn into the dramas of his East Village neighborsWorld War II veteran Richard Stone is attempting to transition back into normal life. An aspiring writer, he's surviving off the GI Bill and the help of friends. Living free of attachments and responsibilities, he thinks, is the best way to defend himself from the world's pain, like his unhappy upbringing or his best friend's death in the wa...

Daniel Stern's sparkling reinventions of six great literary worksTwice Told Tales is a new take on some of literature's greatest stories. In a bravura performance, acclaimed novelist Daniel Stern channels the particular styles and spirits of six classic pieces—even the writings of Sigmund Freud—into unexpected new settings. E. M. Forster, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway are updated in brilliantly drawn portraits, at once affectionate and satirical. Stern...

"A beautiful book" about the temptations and dangers of an adulterous relationship from an award-winning novelist ( The Philadelphia Inquirer).As Simon recovers from a professional disaster—and escapes Chicago for New York—he is drawn to the beautiful, exciting, and mysterious Sarah. Even though the forty-year-old Simon has a wife and child, he falls madly in love with Sarah. Devoting themselves with abandon to the pursuit of happiness, the lovers tour New ...

Winner of the International Prix du Souvenir Award: A theater director and Holocaust survivor is confronted by a figure from his pastBehind the lights and glamour of Broadway, two men reckon with a shared past—one that hides a terrible secret. Jud Kramer is mounting his most painful and personal play while trying to enjoy life with his beautiful actress wife and baby daughter. Into his life comes Carl Walkowitz, a brooding, charismatic drifter who bears the scars of...

Dans "Dante et Goethe : dialogues", Daniel Stern s'engage dans une exploration littéraire et philosophique des œuvres de Dante Alighieri et Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. À travers une série de dialogues fictifs, Stern effleure les thèmes universels tels que la nature de l'art, la quête de la vérité, et les aspirations humaines. Son style littéraire est marqué par une profondeur intellectuelle et une richesse lexicale qui saura captiver les lecteurs avertis, tout en visant à établir un pont c...

More sly and imaginative tributes to some of the greatest writing of the modern age, from author Daniel SternIn Twice Told Tales, Stern wonderfully reimagined classics of world literature—from Forster to Freud—in homage to their authors and the power of great writing. Twice Upon a Time continues the project, though this time Stern goes further, weaving stories around texts as diverse as Marx and Engels's The Communist Manifesto and the po...

A witty novel about art, morality, and the midlife crisis of an earnest man who works at an advertising agency, by an "original and accomplished" writer ( Los Angeles Times) .Wolf Walker is that noblest of creatures: the unrealized artist. He is also ethical advisor to the Lester & French Advertising Agency—a professional conscience. After reading an alarming entry in his wife's diary on his fortieth birthday, Wolf sets out to reclaim his sense of...

"An important and rewarding collection." — Houston ChronicleThe short stories from In the Country of the Young feature characters struggling to find hope and connection—or just escape—through art, work, and love. The title story, a moving account of an angst-ridden seventeen-year-old nearly overwhelmed by his family's aspirations for him, is a paean to the brief moment when the promise of youth and selfhood are untarnished by the disenchantments ...

Elly Kaufman is too young, too beautiful, and too intense to accept life on its own terms; instead, she creates havoc in the world around herIn postwar Indianapolis, young dreamer Elly is navigating adolescence in a tight-knit family. Her search for truth leads her through a variety of experiences—and loves. To a famous architect, she is a symbol of undying youth; to a struggling actor, she is the unspoiled image of creative will; to an ex-GI, she is a thief; to a ...

A former pageant queen struggles with the realities of life off the runway in a novel "reminiscent of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned" ( The State News, Lansing).After being crowned Miss America a decade ago, Cathy Forester has been in some glamorous settings—but she has little to show for it. She's endured a string of failed loves, a divorce, and the death of her parents. Restless by temperament, Cathy thinks she may have found...

More of Daniel Stern's celebrated updates to classic talesThe stories of One Day's Perfect Weather are original, but they flirt enchantingly with classic prose, poetry, and music. Inspired by sources as diverse as Robert Frost and Johann Sebastian Bach, Stern spins luminous short fiction that honors and expands upon its inspirations.