Knopf Publishing Group</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>The award-winning and internationally acclaimed author of the <i>To the End of the Land </i>now gives us a searing short novel about the life of a stand-up comic?? as revealed in the course of one evening??s performance. In the dance between comic and audience?? with barbs flying back and forth?? a deeper story begins to take shape?one that will alter the lives of many of those in attendance.</b><br><br>In a little dive in a small Israeli city?? Dov Greenstein?? a comedian a bit past his prime?? is doing a night of stand-up. In the audience is a district court justice?? Avishai Lazar?? whom Dov knew as a boy?? along with a few others who remember Dov as an awkward?? scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually?? as it teeters between hilarity and hysteria?? Dov??s patte