This collection of stories features a freewheeling version of the creation of the Disney empire--young Walt liked to sketch little animals and his brother Will was a nascent Alexander the Great of entertainment--and a story about primal therapy and circumcision

Free Agents

Literature & Fiction

Apple, Max

United States

Harper&Row

Howard Johnson and Walt Disney are determined to acquire land near Orlando, Florida from Margery Post Merriweather, heiress of the family cereal fortune

The Propheteers

Harpercollins

The Propheteers: A Novel

The Oranging of America and Other Stories

The author of these short stories focuses his attention on Monte Hall, nuclear physics, Howard Johnson, and a national leader from Grand Rapids

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin??Books

The author of these short stories focuses his attention on Monte Hall, nuclear physics, Howard Johnson, and a national leader from Grand Rapids

Penguin

From Max Apple, the witty and acclaimed writer of The Oranging of America and Free Agents, comes a true story unlike any you've ever read before. At its center is a young boy who grows into a man and his grandfather - irascible, scrappy Herman "Rocky" Goodstein - who takes over a troubled family at the age of 103 and shows them all how to survive, how to heal, and how to love. Rocky seems to have been looking out for his grandson Max all his life. A Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, the five-feet-tall, 110 pound Rocky ends up as a baker in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has already been forced into semiretirement by the time Max is born. He is, however, no gentle old man. He argues with the men in the synagogue, screams daily at his fellow workers in the bakery, and explodes in anger in his sleep, calling down curses in Yiddish on his enemies - everyone from the Bolsheviks to Richard Nixon. Grandpa Rocky and Max share a house, a heritage, an extended family and eventually a special bond as the fiery old man shapes and guides a little boy's growth into manhood. But neither quite expects to end up together as roommates during the turbulent 1960s when Max goes to the University of Michigan and Rocky is a hale and hearty 93. And neither could foresee how their lives would continue to be intertwined in years to come. In these times of radical change, it is old-fashioned love that causes the most trouble. Debby, a feisty and bright young woman, immediately steals Max's heart and arouses Rocky's instant dislike, winning him over only after becoming Max's wife and the mother of his two children. Then tragedy strikes; Max helplessly watches his world fall apart; and a very old man whose own thoughts are finally turning toward death discovers he has a new job. Grandpa Rocky, 103, takes over running a family with all the strength of character and wisdom about the sorrows and joys of living that more than a century has taught him. And in doing so, he touches and inspires us all, no matter what our age, in this tough-and-tender true story of an American family.

Roommates: My Grandfather's Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

The author offers a nostalgic account of the life and times of Gootie Goodstein, his memorable grandmother, who emmigrated to the U.S. from a small village in Lithuania

I Love Gootie: My Grandmother's Story

From the author of The Oranging of America comes this inspiring true story about an American family. Rocky takes over a family, at the age of 103, and shows them how to survive.

Professionals & Academics

Grand Central Publishing

Written with the same emotional power as his critically acclaimed "Roommates, " Apple takes a heartwarming and hilarious look at the life of his grandmother. While much of Gootie's advice was hilariously off-target, she taught Apple about the power of love and the art of storytelling.

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Free Agents

The Propheteers

Free Agents

The Propheteers: A Novel

The Oranging of America and Other Stories

The Oranging of America and Other Stories

Roommates: My Grandfather's Story

I Love Gootie: My Grandmother's Story

Roommates: My Grandfather's Story

I Love Gootie: My Grandmother's Story