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First volume in the new publication of the BLOK SAGA, including the acclaimed first four volumes previously printed and the last two new volumes, which will appear during 2012 and 2013. The full saga of Avam Blok's progress from the turmoil of the Middle East conflict into the global madness of our own time, in the words of The New York Times review: "the hilarious wail of a standup comic delivering punch lines from the rubble." An audacious act of literary rebellion that foresees further madness yet to come...
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Here’s a great fizzing parcel bomb of a book. Imagine a Jewish Gulliver’s Travels. Or a Candide from Jerusalem. While you’re at it, remember your Heller and Vonnegut for this is a modem political satire on an epic scale, guaranteed to offend and enrage, to make all save the most effete and illiterate roar and whoop and weep with laughter... A true humorist restores proportion. Louvish, by creating a world pelted by perplexities of every size, does just that...
Gillian Reynolds, Punch.
Punch Lines From the Rubble, David Finkle, New York Times Book Review 1985:
Mr. Louvish has created his novel with the zest and generosity of a grandmother making stuffed cabbage, and he’s also done it with the glint and intensity of a physicist bent on finding a new, fun way to split the atom. Into it he’s thrown high and low (mostly low) humor, bouts of fornication and masturbation (mostly masturbation) and coprophilia, a subplot having to do with the exorcism of a wild boar (Satan? Judas Iscariot?) from subterranean Jerusalem and, overriding all, a politically angry peroration of a sort the Jerusalem Chamber of commerce won’t be excerpting for tourism brochures... The book succeeds as the hilarious wail of a stand-up comic delivering punch lines from the rubble. Mr. Louvish has enough combustible talent... to earn the comparisons with Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut and Swift that have come his way… The apposite adjective in the long run will most likely be “louvish.”
Clancy Sigal, Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4, 1985:
Simon Louvish’s book is an attempt to demythologise Israel and the myth of Israel, using surrealist techniques… It belongs to a Jewish heretical, even kabbalistic tradition and deals with the very real problem of the role of the eccentric or the individual in as collective and militarised a society as Israel’s… I really enjoyed the book a lot. I found it very hard to put down. If they gave Nobel prizes for books of unflagging energy, this would certainly be a contender…
THE THERAPY OF AVRAM BLOK is the first volume of a new Special Edition of THE BLOK SAGA, an enterprise in 6 volumes, in its complete form, comprising the original BLOK TRILOGY, (THE THERAPY OF AVRAM BLOK, CITY OF BLOK, & THE LAST TRUMP OF AVRAM BLOK), the 4th part published as THE DAYS OF MIRACLES AND WONDERS, and the two culminating volumes – THE FUNDAMENTAL BLOK and BLOK 6: THE CHINESE SMILE, which will be published in this series for the first time. The entire series will be rolled out over the next year, 2012-2013, with the first two volumes available now, the next two later in 2012, and the last 2 early in 2013.
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www.margaretmacdonaldbooks.com (the author’s imprint)
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- PublisherMargaret MacDonald Books
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0957243103
- ISBN 13 9780957243101
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages436
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