Temple

by Robert Greenfield

Paulie Binder returns to Brooklyn, seeking his roots and safety in a world that centers on the temple and rediscovers his tragedy-creating, life-sustaining mother, his passive father, their tormented rabbi, and his Kaddish-saying grandfather

Genres: Fiction

411 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

A former Associate Editor of the London bureau of Rolling Stone magazine, Robert Greenfield is the critically acclaimed author of several classic rock books, among them S.T.P.: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones, as well as the definitive biographies of Timothy Leary and Ahmet Ertegun. With Bill Graham, he is the co-author of Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out, which won the ASCAP- Deems Taylor Award. An award winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, his short fiction has appeared in GQ, Esquire, and Playboy magazines. He lives in California.

Reviews

[Reginareads · Rating 4 out of 5]

Delightful self hating Jewish twenty something travels between Cambridge and Brooklyn… what’s not to love