Elsewhere, Perhaps

Elsewhere, Perhaps PDF Author: Amos Oz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0156284758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Novel of the microcosmic world of a kibbutz community located near the Jordanian frontier.

Elsewhere, Perhaps

Elsewhere, Perhaps PDF Author: Amos Oz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0156284758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Book Description
Novel of the microcosmic world of a kibbutz community located near the Jordanian frontier.

Elsewhere, Perhaps

Elsewhere, Perhaps PDF Author: Amos Oz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547710232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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The renowned Israeli author’s debut novel. “An appealing tribute to the persistence of pathos and warmth among human beings clustered against the night.” —Kirkus Reviews Situated only two miles from a hostile border, Amos Oz’s fictional community of Metsudat Ram is a microcosm of the Israeli frontier kibbutz. There, held together by necessity and menace, the kibbutzniks share love and sorrow under the guns of their enemies and the eyes of history. “Immensely enjoyable.” —Chicago Tribune Book World “What Elsewhere, Perhaps eventually reveals is interesting. It is decidedly not what it appears to be at first: A straight-faced slice of kibbutz life told in imitation of the traditional Yiddish narrative voice of the invisible community gossip, who, begging our pardon, knows everything and tells all. No, although the narrator appears initially to be the genial voice of tradition, it soon becomes apparent that it is kidding us. It knows perfectly well we will scoff at Reuven Harish’s verses. For the story it is about to tell is compounded of nothing but ironies . . . It adds up to a charmingly unpious tapestry of Israeli life.” —The New York Times “An exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence.” —The Observer “The physical circumstances are established with a painter’s skill . . . It is a rich book, its fruit pressed down and running over.” —The Sunday Times “A generous imagination at work. [Oz’s] language, for all of its sensuous imagery, has a careful and wise simplicity.” —The New York Times Book Review

The Elsewhere

The Elsewhere PDF Author: Adam Zachary Newton
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299208931
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 413

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"The Elsewhere." Or, midbar-biblical Hebrew for both "wilderness" and "speech." A place of possession and dispossession, loss and nostalgia. But also a place that speaks. Ingeniously using a Talmudic interpretive formula about the disposition of boundaries, Newton explores narratives of "place, flight, border, and beyond." The writers of The Elsewhere are a disparate company of twentieth-century memoirists and fabulists from the Levant (Palestine/Israel, Egypt) and East Central Europe. Together, their texts-cunningly paired so as to speak to one another in mutually revelatory ways-narrate the paradox of the "near distance."

Elsewhere

Elsewhere PDF Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 074757720X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Presents a novel of hope, love, and redemption.

Elsewhere, Perhaps

Elsewhere, Perhaps PDF Author: Amos Oz
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473546745
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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The Kibbutz of Metsudat Ram lies in the valley of Jordan, close to the border. Old and young, happy and discontented, the settlers go about their lives as the artillery rumbles in the distance and the war planes shriek overhead. Among them are Reuven, the school teacher whose true calling is poetry, his teenaged daughter, the capricious Noga, and Ezra, the Kibbutz’s truck-driver. As the seasons pass, so too do storms of love and passion, conflict and misunderstanding, gossip and scandal – all threatening to tear apart a community held together by necessity and idealism.

Judy, Or the London Serio-comic Journal

Judy, Or the London Serio-comic Journal PDF Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation

The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation PDF Author: James William Tutt
Publisher:
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Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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The Living Age

The Living Age PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 838

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Mind

Mind PDF Author:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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A quarterly review of philosophy.

The Promise of Elsewhere

The Promise of Elsewhere PDF Author: Brad Leithauser
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525564128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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A comic novel about a Midwestern professor who tries to prop up his failing prospects for happiness by setting out on the Journey of a Lifetime. Louie Hake is forty-three and teaches architectural history at a third-rate college in Michigan. His second marriage is collapsing, and he's facing a potentially disastrous medical diagnosis. In an attempt to fend off what has become a soul-crushing existential crisis, he decides to treat himself to a tour of the world's most breathtaking architectural sites. Perhaps not surprisingly, Louie gets waylaid on his very first stop in Rome--ludicrously, spectacularly so--and fails to reach most of his other destinations. He embarks on a doomed romance with a jilted bride celebrating her ruined marriage plans alone in London. And in the Arctic he finds that turf houses and aluminum sheds don't amount to much of an architectural tradition. But it turns out that there's another sort of architecture there: icebergs the size of cathedrals, bobbing beside a strange and wondrous landscape. It soon becomes clear that Louie's grand journey is less about where his wanderings have taken him and more about where his past encounters with romance have not. Whether pursuing his first wife, or his estranged current wife, or the older woman he kissed just once a quarter-century ago, Louie reveals himself to be endearing, deeply touching, wonderfully ridiculous . . . and destined to find love in all the wrong places.