Bruce Jay Friedman
Bruce Jay Friedman was a pioneer of Black Humor in American fiction whose Stern and A Mother's Kisses drew on Jewish American anxiety with feverish comic intensity. He helped define the term 'black humor' for the postwar American literary scene.
Works
- SternDark comic novel of neurotic Jewish New Yorker facing psychological breakdown
- A Mother's KissesComic novel of overly protective Jewish mother dominating adult son
- The DickAbsurdist noir following private eye in contemporary Manhattan
- About Harry TownsNovel exploring Hollywood and adult male neurosis
- Scuba DubaComic play adapting absurdist sexual misadventure