To an Early Grave Scandinavia and each of its fifteen

and each of its fifteen chapters begins with her first wetting her bed and thereby greeting a new day

and foibles

and shows her burgeoning desire to break out of it

will enjoy the sheer inventiveness of the faux period language and the intellectual challenges of the narrative

"a measure of bewilderment is part of the job of literature

To an Early Grave Scandinavia and each of its fifteenby Wallace Markfield Publication Date: 10 01 2000 ISBN: 9781564782618 When Leslie Braverman passes away at the early age of 41, four of his closest friends are reunited on an odyssey through the streets of Brooklyn in a beat up Volkswagen searching for the funeral parlor. In a series of fits, starts and wrong turns, the comedic banter that suffuses the journey of these four Jewish proponents of New Criticism and little magazine writing is quietly