{"title": "To an early grave", "covers": [801605], "subject_places": ["New York (State)", "New York"], "first_publish_date": "1964", "key": "/works/OL30755W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL27627A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "Jewish men", "Male friendship", "Jews", "Authors", "Intellectuals", "Funeral rites and ceremonies", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"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 transformed into a quest for the intellectual, emotional and sentimental aura of the past.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-13T11:28:29.899635"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-15T12:59:53.983720"}}