# The Village Idiot

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- Book: [The Village Idiot](https://www.bookquiver.com/steve-j-stern/the-village-idiot) ([The Village Idiot.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/steve-j-stern/the-village-idiot.md))
- Authors: [Steve J. Stern](https://www.bookquiver.com/steve-j-stern)
- Publisher: melville_house
- ISBN: 978-16-8589-077-3
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2023-09-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 " A frothy picaresque that ... vibrates to the “sweet celestial confusion” of Soutine’s painting: delirious and earthy, reverent and irreligious."...