A G.I. on leave in a quiet Belgian town meets and tries to seduce a young woman unsuccessfully. Returning twenty-five years later, he finds the town a noisy, polluted place, and the now-aging woman still tending her mother's shop.
In "The Two Dans", Dan Landau and Dan Laine share first names, a 48-hour pass to Paris during World War II, and adventures abroad.
A professor travels to Israel hoping to spend some time living among the extreme Orthodox Hassidim of the Mea-Sha'arim in Jerusalem and does...with unexpected results.
Author Sam Bluefarb treats readers to these stories and other tales of romance, humor and mishap.
Review: "His writing and his understanding remain direct, honest, quietly moving, and above all, rewarding in conveying important sympathies."
-Morris Freedman, former editor of Commentary and Professor Emeritus of English, University of Maryland
"...a warm, fictionalized recall of youth, family, love, education, soldiering, young manhood, and one's final years."
-Leslie Field, Professor Emeritus, Purdue University
"Sam Bluefarb knows human nature. He has a sound ear for the American language, and a strong sense of place and time. In short, he is a born storyteller."
-Ben Siegel, Professor of English, Cal Poly Pomona University
"Nothing seems to defeat this author's wonderful sense of life's vagaries."
-Peggy Craven Tigerman, Ph. D. Professor Emeritus of English, Los Angeles Harbor College
Bio: SAM BLUEFARB was born in England and is the author of The Escape Motif in the American Novel and Set in L.A.: Scences of the City in Fiction, and has published numerous articles and reviews on literary criticism. Bluefarb holds a Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico and served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
