The Self-Devoted Friend

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50th-anniversary edition of Marvin Cohen's debut fiction. "It is rare these days — perhaps, any days — to come across a work that not only reveals a striking, fresh talent, but sta nds outside current literary preoccupations. What Mr. Cohen has is his own: a joy in language, and an eye, at once innocent and shrewd, for the paradoxes inherent in the human condition. He puts both language and people through their paces, stands them on their heads, and hugs them to his heart in what amounts as a tour de force of serio-comedy, a sort of superb clowning in which pathos and absurdity intertwine as they do in a Charlie Chaplin film."— The New York Times Book Review Show more