A Horse Walks Into a Bar

David Grossman

A Horse Walks Into a Bar
Format
Audio
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Published
21 February 2017
ISBN
9781665146586

A Horse Walks Into a Bar

David Grossman

In a little dive in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of standup. In the audience is a district court justice, Avishai Lazar, whom Dov knew as a boy, along with a few others who remember Dov as the awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually, teetering between hilarity and hysteria, Dov’s patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood–his beautiful flower of a mother, a Holocaust survivor in need of constant monitoring; his punishing father, a striver who had little understanding of his creative son. Finally, recalling his week at a military camp for youth–where Lazar witnessed what became the central event of Dov’s childhood–Dov describes the indescribable while Lazar wrestles with his own part in the comedian’s story of loss and survival. A beautiful performance by Grossman (jokes in questionable taste included).

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