{"product_id":"9780393083132","title":"Liebestod: Opera Buffa with Leib Goldkorn","description":"\u003cp\u003eA multilayered masterpiece of fevered imagination and eroticism, \u003ci\u003eLiebestod\u003c\/i\u003e soars as the consummate work by one of America's greatest comic geniuses.\u003c\/p\u003e As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, \u003ci\u003eLiebestod\u003c\/i\u003e returns us to Leslie Epstein’s most compelling literary character, that European émigré and meagerly successful musician, Leib Goldkorn, whose final years as a randy centenarian in New York City end in one of the most memorable swan songs in recent fiction. Invited back to his hometown in Moravia, Leib discovers that his father is not a hops magnate but actually one of the twentieth century’s greatest composers, Gustav Mahler. Returning to New York with a bevy of rabbinical cousins, Leib, now besotted by a world-famed diva, is determined to bring to the Metropolitan Opera \u003ci\u003eRubezahl\u003c\/i\u003e, the only opera his real father ever wrote. Yet the much-heralded premiere turns into a fiasco of unimaginable proportions, all breathtakingly relayed by a stunned newspaper correspondent who survives to report on this monumental disaster. With \u003ci\u003eLiebestod\u003c\/i\u003e, Epstein once again “illuminates the mystery of our common humanity and mortality” (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118580875504,"sku":"9780393083132","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393083132_p0.jpg?v=1769892882","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393083132","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}