It is a story of a man coping with his mother’s death in a way he did not seem to expect, and one that the audience certainly did not either. David Grossman’s book is a little different. It is not the classic tear-jerker tragedy or somber, heart tugging tale, no. Without spoiling the whole book, I can warn that it is actually pretty sad at times. I was not sure what this book would entail when coming into it and certainly did not expect what I got out of it. As he tells the story the crowd begins to dwindle, but his story crescendos right up to the end. He then transitions into telling the story of his mother’s death with the periodic interjections of a joke or two. Dov starts the performance in what seems like a pretty standard way, until he starts wailing on himself physically. This novel follows the main character, Dovelah Greenstein, as he gives his final performance of stand-up comedy narrated through the view of the character Avishai Lazar. This week I will be looking at and reviewing the book, A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman winner of the International Booker Prize. Hello everybody, this is the first book review of a weekly segment of book reviews written by me.
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