Clerical Errors

A delightful mix of both wit and profundity. The combination of rich vocabulary, a decent plot, and Isler’s unnerving ability to assume the identity of his characters can’t help but result in a novel you’ll wish was longer! * Time Out *Alan Isler, as usual, manages to combine almost Wodehousian comedy with painful, unsentimental tragedy * Sunday Times *A superb new comic novel… wildly funny… Like the stories of Malamud and Singer one senses that the true hero of Clerical Errors is the story itself * Independent on Sunday *Terrifically funny. Isler has once again come up with a winning voice for his narrator, by turns witty, bawdy and lugubrious * Financial Times *A rich, rambunctious novel * The Times *Through Father Music’s rambling all-embracing voice, Isler gives us one of the funniest, most moving novels of faith, love and loss in years * Red *

Alan Isler was born in London in 1934. His first novel, The Prince of West End Avenue, was acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. In America it won the National Jewish Book Award and was one of the five fiction nominees for the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award. In Britain it won the Jewish Quarterly Fiction Award. He is also the author of another novel, Kraven Images, and a collection of novellas, The Bacon Fancier.

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