Ice Fire Water

"Leib Goldkorn, now aged 97, made his celebrated debut almost a quarter of a century ago in The Steinway Quintet."--BOOK JACKET. "In Ice Fire Water Leib pursues his passion both in romantic locales - Paris, Hollywood, and Rio just before World War II - and with the three most glamorous women of that era. In Ice, Leib rescues the famous skater Sonja Henie from Hitler's clutches and then directs her in a feature for Twentieth Century Fox. In Fire, his paramour is Carmen Miranda, with whom he has a shipboard romance while on the way to Rio. And in Water he has a South Sea Island intrigue with a famous swimming star of the '40s, whom he saves from the ravages of hungry cannibals. But perhaps the one he loves most is Esther - not the bathing beauty but the heroine of the biblical opera that he has written in order to bring the world's attention to the desperate plight of the Jews."--BOOK JACKET. "But Leib lives and loves no less in the present. Following doctor's orders to effect a purgation of his prostate, he seeks joyous relief with three new inamoratas: that same Michiko Kakutani, whom he is convinced is a blond-headed Finnish masseuse; his own wife, Clara, who once allowed him to b