The Rug Merchant

phillip lopate

A one-time graduate student who took over his uncle's New York rug store, middle-aged Cyrus Irani faces a harsh world with his customary old-world grace as he is lead from sex clubs to the Zoroastrian temple

Genres fiction

224 pages, Paperback

First published March 10,1987

This edition

Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published: March 1, 1988 by Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140096767
ASIN: 0140096760
Language: English

About the author

phillip lopate

Phillip Lopate is the author of three personal essay collections, two novels, two poetry collections, a memoir of his teaching experiences, and a collection of his movie criticism. He has edited the following anthologies, and his essays, fiction, poetry, film and architectural criticism have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, The Paris Review, Harper's, Vogue, Esquire, New York Times, Harvard Educational Review, Conde Nast Traveler, and many other periodicals and anthologies. He has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants. After working with children for twelve years as a writer in the schools, he taught creative writing and literature at Fordham, Cooper Union, University of Houston, and New York University. He currently holds the John Cranford Adams Chair at Hofstra University, and also teaches in the MFA graduate programs at Columbia, the New School and Bennington.