Tom Williams
Here I Stand
A Horse Walks into a Bar
By David Grossman (Translated by Jessica Cohen)
Jonathan Cape 197pp £14.99 order from our bookshop
The entirety of David Grossman’s new novel, A Horse Walks into a Bar, takes place in a comedy club in Netanya, a small Israeli town. The narrative spans the set of Dovaleh Greenstein, a stand-up celebrating his fifty-seventh birthday. He has acquired the accoutrements that are not uncommon to middle-aged comedians: a handful of failed marriages, five children requiring support, and disillusionment with his act, which once had the excitement of ‘tightrope walking’.
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