In Paradise
β Bruce Sterling
π Fiction
π
2018
π English
β 10 KB
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β¦ LIBER β¦
An hour in paradise: stories
β Scribed by Joan Leegant
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2003;2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Edition
- First Norton pbk. edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 039334018X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Joan Leegant writes stories that last, stories that take root in the soul."--Bret Lott, author of Jewel Joan Leegant's collection takes its title from the Yiddish proverb "Even an hour in Paradise is worthwhile." In settings from Jerusalem to Queens, from Hollywood's outskirts to Sarasota, Florida, the characters in this mesmerizing debut collection are drawn to the seductions of religion, soldiering on in search of divine and human connection. A former drug dealer turned yeshiva student faces his past with a dying AIDS patient. A disaffected American in the ancient city of Safed ventures into Kabbalist mysticism and gets more than he bargained for. A rabbi whose morning minyan is visited by a pair of Siamese twins considers the possibility that his guests are not mere mortals. An aging Jerusalemite chronicles his country's changes during the biblical year of rest. By turns poignant and comic, unflinching and compassionate--with a dose of fabulist...
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