Hope: a Tragedy : A Novel (Paperback)

from Ashles

Solomon Kugel is a hopeless optimist (according to his therapist) who spends a lot of time thinking of the perfect thing to say right before dying. He just moved to a small town in upstate New York, along with his wife, son, and mother. His mother is on the verge of her death and (seems to be) me...

from Allizabeth

Description: Solomon Kugel, a death obsessed neurotic, yearns for a fresh start for his family; so he moves them from the hustle and bustle of NYC to a farmhouse in the little known, (and little known for), Stockton, NY. Unfortunately, escaping his past - and his neuroses - proves an impossibilit...

from Beezie

Everything about this book is good. Even its cover. I'd heard Auslander on NPR's This American Life and remember laughing at his story. This book, however, is perfect. Though, given the subject matter, I suppose, I wouldn't recommend it to sensitive types.

from pbadeer

While I thought this was an excellent book, I find it difficult to describe. The writing is "quirky", but with a humor that is more cringe-worthy than laugh out loud funny. There are one-liners which sneak up on you, and you find them humorous in spite of yourself - because you know you shouldn't...

from jasonlf

Outrageously funny, so wildly original you forgive a certain amount of repetitiveness, a rude offspring of Philip Roth and Franz Kafka. The sort of book where you constantly want to put it down and call everyone you know to read them the passages you just read. Solomon Kugel is a neurotic obsesse...