Death by Pastrami

by Leonard S. Bernstein

Book Overview

In these seventeen wry stories, Bernstein introduces us to the unsung residents of NYC's garment district--proud lace sewers, unscrupulous ragmen, and salesmen with a penchant for stolen pens. Bernstein is a master of brevity--most stories clock in at under ten pages--and he is most concerned with the particulars of human yearning. A man offers a million dollars for a "first-rate" human heart. An engineer chooses the suit he will wear every day...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608010279
• ISBN13: 9781608010271
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of New Orleans Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up