ZimZum [Zim Zum]

98 pp. Famed editor at Esquire and Knopf, and teacher to a generation of talented authors. A novel by Lish, composed of six rigoursly crafted parts-informed by a desperately libidinous comic rage. An engaging work from one of the most controversial and important American writers of his time. The narrator, a quintessential New Yorker, is barely able to hold on to his sanity as it is daily challenged by his wife, his parents in their nursing home, and the people he encounters in everyday life.