The prince of West End Avenue - Alan Isler

Alan Isler was born in London in 1834. 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 the novels, Kraven Images and Clerical Errors, and a collection of novellas, The Bacon Fancier.

A masterpiece
Independent - Hugo Barnacle

Alan Isler's novel has been compared with the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Saul Bellow... Can it possibly live up to such praise? It can, it does
Spectator - Anita Brookner

Masterly, imaginative and provocatively disturbing in its effortless transitions between the comic and the tragic
Guardian - Geoffrey Elborn

Hilariously funny...a wonderful acheivement. Not since the heyday of Bellow and Heller has language been used to such good effect, at once hilarious and profoundly humane. Not since Malamud have comedy and tragedy and pathos and romance come together so effortlessly
Jewish Quarterly - Gabriel Josipovici

Poignant, comic and delightfully clever
Observer