Angel of Forgetfulness

"THE ANGEL OF FORGETFULNESS is written in spicy, incantatory prose, a hybrid of Yiddishisms and Southern Gothic....The more visceral Stern's subject, the fancier his writing....But when he's on a roll, Stern's narrative high-stakesmanship and comic gifts combine in a powerful evocation of a lost time. Eery storyteller is a kind of orphan, a designated mourner condemned to revisit people and places nobody else remembers. That Steve Stern's Lower East Side mobsters and good-time girls died long before their troubadour was born--and yet still burn with a crazy fever to live--only makes his angelic tale the sadder."Stern, Steve is the author of 'Angel of Forgetfulness', published 2005 under ISBN 9780670033874 and ISBN 0670033871.