Death by Pastrami Author:Leonard S. Bernstein In these seventeen wry stories, Bernstein introduces us to the unsung residents of NYCs garment district -- proud lace sewers, unscrupulous ragmen, and salesmen with a penchant for stolen pens. Bernstein is a master of brevity -- most stories clock in at under ten pages and he is most concerned with the particulars of human yearning. A man offer... more »s a million dollars for a first-rate human heart. An engineer chooses the suit he will wear every day for the rest of his life. A funeral salesman discovers the deadly power of the pastrami sandwich. In their breadth, these stories capture a New York that recedes further into memory every year: a garment district populated by people with at least a passing acquaintanceship with the old country and older ways of making things.« less
ISBN-13: 9781608010271 ISBN-10: 1608010279 Publication Date: 11/20/2014 Pages:164 Edition:The University of Ne Rating: