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Title

Ice fire water : a Leib Goldkorn cocktail / by Leslie Epstein.

Author

Epstein, Leslie.

Publication

New York : Norton, 1999.

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Description

246 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "Leib Goldkorn, now aged 97, made his celebrated debut almost a quarter of a century ago in The Steinway Quintet."--BOOK JACKET.
• "In Ice Fire Water Leib pursues his passion both in romantic locales - Paris, Hollywood, and Rio just before World War II - and with the three most glamorous women of that era. In Ice, Leib rescues the famous skater Sonja Henie from Hitler's clutches and then directs her in a feature for Twentieth Century Fox. In Fire, his paramour is Carmen Miranda, with whom he has a shipboard romance while on the way to Rio.
• And in Water he has a South Sea Island intrigue with a famous swimming star of the '40s, whom he saves from the ravages of hungry cannibals. But perhaps the one he loves most is Esther - not the bathing beauty but the heroine of the biblical opera that he has written in order to bring the world's attention to the desperate plight of the Jews."--BOOK JACKET.
• "But Leib lives and loves no less in the present.
• Following doctor's orders to effect a purgation of his prostate, he seeks joyous relief with three new inamoratas: that same Michiko Kakutani, whom he is convinced is a blond-headed Finnish masseuse; his own wife, Clara, who once allowed him to blow upon the crimson polish she had applied to her toes; and above all Miss Crystal Knight, whom he knows first from the pages of The Hustler Review, and finally, at the Steinway restaurant itself, in the very flesh.
• It is there, in a moment of ecstasy and surprise, that the sublimations of Leib's life are at last undone."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Miranda, Carmen, 1909-1955 > Fiction
• Jews > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
• Henie, Sonja, 1912-1969 > Fiction

ISBN

0393048047

LCCN

99030719

OCLC

• 504825677
• ocn504825677

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries