The Book of Getting Even: A Novel
Taylor, Benjamin
ISBN 10: 1586421433 ISBN 13: 9781586421434
Published by Steerforth, 2008
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Son of a rabbi, budding astronomer Gabriel Geismar is on his way from youth to manhood in the 1970s when he falls in love with the esteemed and beguiling Hundert family, different in every way from his own. Over the course of a decade-long drama unfolding in New Orleans, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and the Wisconsin countryside, Gabriel enters more and more passionately and intimately into the world of his elective clan, discovering at the inmost center that he alone must bear the full weight of their tragedies, past and present. Yet The Book of Getting Even is funny and robust, a novel rich in those fundamentals we go to great fiction for: the exploration of what is hidden, the sudden shocks, the feeling at last of life laid bare.
About the Author: Benjamin Taylor is the author of the novel Tales Out of School, which won the 1996 Harold Ribalow Prize and is available in paperback from Zoland Books, an imprint of Steerforth Press. He is editor of The Letters of Saul Bellow, scheduled for publication in 2009. His travel memoir, Naples Declared, will be published in 2010.
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Title: The Book of Getting Even: A Novel
Publisher: Steerforth
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good