A Backhanded Gift: A Novel

A Backhanded Gift: A Novel

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Its the late 1980s, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Robert Cherney, a 30yearold aspiring writer, has left New York City for a job teaching tennis in Munich. Aside from private lessons, he coaches the Maccabi Club men s league team, a motley group of neurotics whose eccentricities seem exacerbated by their situation as Jews living in Germany. They have made fortunes in postwar Germany but are hounded daily by the ghosts of the past and wracked with guilt over living so blithely among their parents tormentors. One of the players on Robert s team is his best friend in Munich, Max Altmann, a successful and wealthy young businessman who is also Roberts employer, landlord, provocateur, and guide to Munich s nightlife. In addition to trying to figure out his life and not go crazy teaching tennis, Robert is trying to forget Lexa, the focus of years of erotic obsession back in New York. Helping him are Ingrid, a 40ish Maccabi member and tennis pupil, and Veronique, a 25yearold Jewish graduate student whom Max tries to set up with Robert. Love, tennis, sex, frustrated artistic ambition, and the dilemma of being a German Jew are all ingredients of this literary delight that is at turns serious and comedic.

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