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005			20231009192215.0
008			090707s2009 mau 000 1 eng
010			_a2008049207
020			_a9780151013678
050	0	0	_aPJ5054.O9 _bH3713 2009
082	0	0	_aFIC OZ
100	1		_aOz, Amos _d(, 1939-)
240	1	0	_aHaruze ha-hayim veha-mavet _l. English
245	1	0	_aRhyming life & death _c/ Amos Oz ; translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange
246	3		_aRhyming life and death
260			_aBoston _b: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt _c, 2009.
300			_a117 p. _c; 21 cm.
500			_a"First published in Hebrew as Haruzei hahayim vehamavet by Keter Publishing House"--T.p. verso.
520			_aAn 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.
650			_aAuthors _v--Fiction
700	1		_aDe Lange, N.R.M. (Nicholas Robert Michael), 1944-
942			_cMO
999			_c232662 _d232662