Stern

New York: Simon and Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, with some faint scarring/residue to front endpaper (possibly from removal of label or bookplate); jacket very lightly rubbed, slightly scrunched at top of spine]. Friedman's first novel, "a novel about being Jewish, a condition that causes tremors and upheavals in the nice, intelligent, humorous, neurotic mind of Stern -- and that is violently agitated when a man a few streets down, in a fit of temper, calls Stern's wife a kike." .