The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apartment 3W by Gabriel Brownstein (9780747560104)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apartment 3W by Gabriel Brownstein (9780747560104)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apartment 3W (Book)
Gabriel Brownstein Release Date: 01 Feb 2003 Format: Paperback Pages: 224 ISBN: 9780747560104 ISBN-10: 0747560102
Five stories are set in one apartment building, where young Davey Birnbaum watches his neighbours' lives unfold. The title story reworks F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, whose hero is born as an old man and ages in reverse; Brownstein's Button lives on the third floor, fading away towards infancy. In apartment 7E, a lawyer named Zauberman re-enacts the life of Hawthorne's Wakefield, abandoning his family so that he can spy on them. And upstairs in the penthouse, the proctologist with a wire-brush moustache and movie villain's limp plays Icarus and Daedalus with his misfit son. Clever, stylish, sad and ironic, this is the debut of a highly talented and original young writer.
