Rhyming life & death / Amos Oz ; translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2009.Description: 117 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780151013678
- Rhyming life and death
- Haruze ha-hayim veha-mavet . English
- FIC OZ
- PJ5054.O9 H3713 2009
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Fiction / Ficción | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles | General | FIC OZ (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 014398 |
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"First published in Hebrew as Haruzei hahayim vehamavet by Keter Publishing House"--T.p. verso.
An ingenious, witty, behind-the-scenes novel about eight hours in the life of an author. A literary celebrity is in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night to give a reading from his new book.While the obligatory inane questions ("Why do you write? What is it like to be famous? Do you write with a pen or on a computer?) are being asked and answered, his attention wanders and he begins to invent lives for the strangers he sees around him. Among them are Yakir Bar-Orian Zhitomirski, a self-styled literary guru; Tsefania Beit-Halachmi, a poet (whose work provides the novel's title); and Rochele Reznik, a professional reader, with whom the Author has a brief but steamy sexual skirmish; to say nothing of Ricky the waitress, the real object of his desire. One life story builds on another and the author finds himself unexpectedly involved with his creations.
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