Teitlebaum's Window Literary Figures with an overwhelming and consuming

with an overwhelming and consuming passion

Subtitled “An Exegesis of Squalor

or rather (as O'Brien wrote to his editor)

And the moon must have still been bustling at my back

Teitlebaum's Window Literary Figures with an overwhelming and consumingby Wallace Markfield Publication Date: 10 01 1999 ISBN: 9781564782199 Welcome to Brighton Beach of the 1930s and early '40s as filtered through Simon Sloan, from youth to would be artist as a young man at Brooklyn College to the eve of his induction into the army. Wallace Markfield perfectly captures this Jewish neighborhood its speech, its people, its unique zaniness. But like any masterpiece Joyce's "Dubliners" comes readily to mind "Teitlebaum's