Carnovsky's Retreat: A Novel by Larry Duberstein

By Larry Duberstein

A midsummer morning, Brooklyn, 1955. Oscar Carnovsky, a good (yet rarely exceptional) middle-aged guy, leaves for paintings within the ordinary type: takes his proportion of the morning paper, kisses his spouse so long, and waves again as he turns the nook of Linden street. He has performed it accurately this fashion 5 thousand times.

this actual morning, even though, he waves from the nook and isn't noticeable back, neither is he heard from, for years. many years later (at Oscar’s funeral) his daybooks come to light—a list of the lacking years and of his lifestyles because the Invisible Mensch.

This unremarkable guy will quickly turn into an unforgettable personality as you accompany him on his flight in the course of the Fifties in a hugely unique moment novel from Larry Duberstein, whose prior paintings, The Marriage Hearse, used to be hailed by means of the critics.

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