Raymond And Hannah - Softcover

Marche, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156032570 ISBN 13: 9780156032575

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2005

Synopsis

This boldly contemporary love story combines sex and seriousness, physical lust and spiritual longing. Raymond and Hannah hook up at a party; a one-night stand expands into a weeklong passionate and surprisingly deep love affair. Then Hannah leaves for a year in Jerusalem. With six thousand miles separating their bodies, the energy of love and lust must be sublimated to the written word. While Hannah immerses herself in Torah and the Orthodox world of Jerusalem, Raymond remains in multicultural Toronto, working on his dissertation on Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy.

Over the school year, Hannah's growing love for her Jewishness is more and more at odds with her love for a blond, blue-eyed WASP. And Raymond, pining in Toronto, seems to be living out his dissertation before he's even written it. Can this new love affair survive distance, cultural dissonance, and out-of-sync, late-night e-mails?
In this remarkable debut, carnal love confronts religion and culture, and modern passion finds its counterpoint in ancient texts.

About this title

About the Author:

STEPHEN MARCHE has published short fiction in various literary journals and was short-listed for the 2002 O. Henry Prize. This is his first novel. He lives in Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0156032570
• ISBN 13: 9780156032575
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 209