![]() ![]() Finally, recalling his week at a military camp for youth-where Lazar witnessed what would become the central event of Dov’s childhood-Dov describes the indescribable while Lazar wrestles with his own part in the comedian’s story of loss and survival.Ĭontinuing his investigations into how people confront life’s capricious battering, and how art may blossom from it, Grossman delivers a stunning performance in this memorable one-night engagement (jokes in questionable taste included). ![]() Knopf, 208 pages 0 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. Gradually, as it teeters between hilarity and hysteria, Dov’s patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood: we meet his beautiful flower of a mother, a Holocaust survivor in need of constant monitoring, and his punishing father, a striver who had little understanding of his creative son. A Horse Walks Into a Bar Dwid Grsman Alfred A. 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. ![]() 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. ![]() David Grossman – A Horse Walks into a Bar ![]()
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