JOHN J. CLAYTON

Selected Fiction

Short Stories

Ten interwoven stories. Each can be read separately but all emanate from a morning minyan at a synagogue in Brookline, MA. Ten stories, ten major characters. One, Sam Schulman, appears often.

Many Seconds Into the Future

A collection of ten new stories. 2014

Wrestling with Angels: New and Collected Stories

Stories published through 2007

Radiance: Ten Stories

Runner-up for National Jewish Book Award in 1998

Bodies of the Rich

Short stories, mostly Jewish including those appearing in O.Henry and Best American Stories collections. 1984

Novels

Mitzvah Man

Boston businessman Adam Friedman goes a little crazy—or becomes a little holy—after the death of his beloved wife. 2011

Kuperman’s Fire

A novel about Jewish heritage and criminal evil. 2007

The Man I Never Wanted to Be

Story of a gentle, liberal professor who has to cope with a man of violence. 1998

What Are Friends For?

Love story of a seventies radical and an older woman. 1979

Bodies of the Rich

Short stories, mostly Jewish, including those appearing in the O.Henry and Best American Stories collections.

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