title: Einstein's Beach House
author:  Jacob M Appel 
description: "Jacob Appel captures New York City and its satellites around the turn of the millennium with painful, entertaining accuracy. Lives are coming apart, and coming together, in stories that live with you long after you've read them. Comparisons to Cheever, Trevor, and especially Chekhov can't be helped, but Appel writes with a grace and humor all his own." - Dan O'Brien, author of<span><i>War Reporter</i></span>and<span><i>The Body of an American</i></span><br /><br />"Jacob Appel is licensed to give sightseeing tours, and reading Einstein's Beach House certainly cements his qualifications. A capacious curiosity is at work here: Appel's stories move with thirstful purpose, rarely slowing, filled with wry humor and bon mots as we proceed briskly down his fictional paths, invited to examine modern ethical issues along the way. Take this tour--you'll want to give a tip once you reach the end." - Matthew Pitt, author of<span><i>Attention Please Now</i></span><br /><br />"A failed professional ventriloquist, a possibly morose hedgehog and a particularly acute array of parents and their children populate Jacob Appel's impossibly keen Einstein's Beach House -- a collection that takes a sharp look at the moments when we, whether child or adult, see who we truly are and the inevitability of who we will become. Appel's achy, skewed, sometimes heart-breaky world is dense with truth and humor -- the stuff of great literature." - Allison Lynn, author of<span><i>The Exiles</i></span>and<span><i>Now You See It</i></span><br /><br /><span>"Sharp, observant, darkly funny and deeply humane." - <i>Kirkus</i></span>
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  _Knee Play no. 5_ from the opera _Einstein on the Beach_ by Robert Wilson and
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  Witness (One Hope)
  
  
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