The Man Who Wanted to Buy a Heart A Collection of Short Stories

In The Man Who Wanted to Buy a Heart, Berstein depicts characters working in New York's fabric industry in stories of the peculiar nature of human yearnings. In "Navy Blue Forever," an engineer decides he will wear an identical suit every day for the rest of his life. The title story introduces us to Markowitz, a merchant "who can buy anything" until a man comes to him with a request for a "first-rate" human heart. In "Krinsky and the Ragman," an underwear manufacturer becomes convinced the man who buys his leftover scraps of fabric is stealing from him. With the meticulously crafted stories in The Man Who Wanted to Buy a Heart, Bernstein gives us a wealth of insight into human experience.