Leslie S Epstein

Leslie Epstein

Leslie Donald Epstein (born on May 4, 1938 in Los Angeles, California) is an American novelist. He has written nine novels including King of the Jews (1979), ...

Ice Fire Water: A Leib Goldkorn Cocktail

Leib Goldkorn, aged musician, first appeared almost a quarter-century ago in The Steinway Quintet. Now Leib has replaced his magic flute with his phallus: it is love, longing, and the quest for sexual fulfillment that must stave off both his own death and the imminent destruction of the Jews. In Ice...

Liebestod: Opera Buffa with Leib Goldkorn

A multilayered masterpiece of fevered imagination and eroticism, Liebestod soars as the consummate work by one of America's greatest comic geniuses. As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, Liebestod returns us to Leslie Epstein’s most compelling literary character, that European émigré and meagerly suc...

The Eighth Wonder of the World

A magnificent new novel that strikingly reimagines Fascist Italy.When Benito Mussolini announces a worldwide competition for a monument to celebrate his victory over Ethiopia, the winning design is an almost unimaginable mile-high tower, La Vittoria, created by the famed American architect, Amos Pri...

San Remo Drive

"One of the four best Hollywood novels ever written." —Elizabeth Frank, New York Times Book Review "Epstein is a master storyteller at the height of his powers." —Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Mr. Epstein effortlessly captures the magic of a Hollywood childhood . . . San Remo...

King of the Jews

New in Paperback This 1979 classic tells the darkly humorous story of I.C. Trumpelman, a man whose fancy determines the fate of others. Chosen as the head of a Judenrat, Trumpelman thrives on the power granted him and creates an authoritarian regime of his own within the ghetto. By turns a con m...

Pandaemonium

An epic tale of a powerful Hollywood in the 1940s assembles a huge collection of moguls, agents, directors, starlets, writers, gossip columnists, and a great film director named Rudolf Von Beckmann, all of whom converge on a small town to make a film. First serial, Partisan Review.

The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America

Book by Epstein, Barbara Leslie

Goldkorn Tales: Three Novellas

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Pandaemonium

Pandaemonium

P. D. Kimerakov

The Steinway Quintet: Plus Four

Ice Fire Water

Pinto and Sons

King of the Jews

Ice Fire Water