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A multilayered masterpiece of fevered imagination and eroticism, Liebestod soars as the consummate work by one of America's best comic geniuses.As amusing as it is heartbreaking, Liebestod results us to Leslie Epstein's most persuasive literary identity, that Western european emigrant and meagerly successful musician, Leib Goldkorn, whose last years as a randy centenarian in New York City end in one of the most memorable swan sounds in recent fiction. Invited back to his hometown in Moravia, Leib discovers that his daddy is not really a hops magnate but actually one of the twentieth century's best composers, Gustav Mahler. Returning to New York with a bevy of rabbinical cousins, Leib, now besotted by the world-famed diva, is determined to bring to the Metropolitan Opera Rubezahl, the only opera his real daddy ever wrote. Yet the much-heralded premiere turns into a fiasco of unimaginable proportions, all breathtakingly relayed by the stunned newspapers correspondent who survives to report upon this monumental disaster. With Liebestod, Epstein once again "illuminates the unknown of our common mankind and mortality" (New York Times).
