Falling Out of Time (Vintage International) - Softcover

Grossman, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345805852 ISBN 13: 9780345805850

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014

Synopsis

In this compassionate and genre-defying drama the internationally acclaimed author of To the End of the Land weaves an incandescent tale of parental grief. A powerful distillation of the experience of understanding and acceptance, and of art's triumph over death, Falling Out of Time is part play, part prose, and pure poetry. As Grossman's characters ultimately find solace and hope through their communal acts of mourning, readers will find comfort in their clamorous vitality, and in the gift of storytelling--a realm where loss is not an absence, but a life force in its own right.

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Review

"A strange and riveting book." --The New York Times Book Review

"An almost unbearably personal work. . . . The monologues evoke both the raw declarations of Athenian tragedy and the homespun lamentations of Robert Frost's narrative poem." --The Wall Street Journal

"Spare and poetic." --The New York Review of Books

"A richly emotional, mystical and philosophical tapestry . . . [Falling Out of Time] deserves recognition among the greatest works in the brave and indispensable tradition of art that pushes back against catastrophe." --Jewish Daily Forward

"Slim in dimension but as solid as sculpted rock. . . . Although it grows from a private, incomparable ordeal, this noble fable speaks for all." --The Independent (London)

"Part narrative poem, part play, part novel . . . [a] poignant study of bereavement and loss." --Financial Times

"[Grossman is] the greatest Israeli writer of his generation. . . . Talmudic, polyphonic, yearning, [Falling Out of Time] comes from a place of pain and darkness and is acutely moving." --The Daily Telegraph (London)

"The language of its composition makes it particular to Israel, but once translated [Falling Out of Time] becomes universal." --The Times Literary Supplement (London)

"Grossman is perhaps Israel's most important contemporary novelist. . . . [Falling Out of Time] resembles a play by Beckett or a Greek tragedy. . . . A haunting, affecting and even beautiful book." --The Toronto Star

"It's not a novel, but a mixture of poetry, prose and drama . . . as true and as powerful as CS Lewis's great A Grief Observed." --The Times (London)

"A book that needed to be written. . . . Poetic. . . . [A] triumph." --The Observer (London)

"At once more universal and more personal than anything [Grossman] has written before." --Sunday Times (London)

"Falling Out of Time is short, and clearly a deeply personal book, but its importance and impact ought not to be underestimated." --The Guardian (London)

"A significant new departure in literature." --Jewish Chronicle

"Sensual and uncompromising. . . . Written with such simplicity it appears to be speaking directly to the reader, Falling Out Of Time is at times Biblical in its imagery, at others weird and fantastical. . . . It's a measure of Grossman's clarity of thought and his theatrical timing that one reaches its end and feels, in some small way, glad to have been in his characters' company however grim the road they travel." --The Herald Scotland

"An impassioned exploration of existential questions about life and death. . . . The precision and sensory depth of Grossman's language renders this unconventional work an unforgettable and magnificent document of suffering." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Book Description

Following the magisterial To the End of the Land, the universally acclaimed Israeli author brings us an incandescent fable of parental grief - slim, elemental, a powerfully distilled experience of understanding and acceptance, and of art’s triumph over death.

Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0345805852
• ISBN 13: 9780345805850
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208