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i ack Engelhard's novel Indecent
Proposal was an international
bestseller that spawned the
blockbuster movie starring
Robert Redford and Demi Moore.
His latest novel, The Days of the Bit-
ter End (Buy Books on the Web.com ;
$15.95), is the story of the rise and fall
of Cliff Harris, who
emerges from
obscurity to become
America's most pop-
ular comedian. Cliff
is a superb imper-
sonator who does
John F. Kennedy so
well that Jackie can
hardly tell the dif-
ference. His life,
like the lives of so
many others,
changes on Nov. 22, 1963.
Rich in historical relevance, The
Days of the Bitter End unfolds
through the eyes of Harris and three
of his friends. Ben Jaffa, 23, a sur-
vivor of the Holocaust, is the doorman
at a popular Greenwich Village club;
Richie Bell, a wealthy, 21-year-old
who could have gone to Harvard,
dreams of becoming a folk singer like
Bob Dylan; and 19-year-old Louise
Carmen is the girl who loves them
both.
As the action moves into the Viet-
nam era, Jaffa is the only one who
can't understand the discontent of
American youth so prevalent during
the '60s.
"To him, America is a picnic and
Americans just don't know it," says
Engelhard. "It's the contrast between
the 'Golden Land' and a continent
where people were being slaugh-
tered."
Engelhard set his novel in Green-
wich Village because it was a mecca
for the emerging counterculture revo-
lution, a gathering place for social
activists, folk musicians, political
satirists and "American hipdom."
At its heart was the Bitter End, a
popular nightclub where the young
Jack Engelhard, like his character Ben
Jaffa, landed a job as the doorman.
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to become a novelist, being surround-
ed by the likes of Lenny Bruce, Bob
Dylan, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby and
all that creativity," he says. "I knew at
the time that someday I would write a
novel about those experiences."
Also appearing at the club during
Engelhard's time there was JFK impres-
sionist Vaughn Meader, who was so
good that comedian Lenny Bruce once
cracked: "If JFK goes, make room for
two graves at
Arlington."
Kennedy's
assassination
brought the end
of Camelot, and
Engelhard
watched the
dejected impres-
sionist Meader
leave the club and
walk down the
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street throwing and kicking beer cans.
As for The Days of the Bitter End,
"this was probably the longest novel
in progress in history," Engelhard
says about its completion nearly 35
years later.
He credits a chance meeting with a
man named Richie Ornstein with get-
ting the lingering novel back on track.
Ornstein was one of the few Jewish cops
on than Greenwich Village beat in '63.
"He gave me so much inside info r-