Rhyming Life and Death

OZ,AMOS

ISBN 10: 0099521024 / ISBN 13: 9780099521020

Published by Vintage Books USA, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rhyming Life and Death
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099521024
• ISBN 13: 9780099521020
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1753339112.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 46932741
• Signed: 7/24/2025 6:38:32 AM
• Seller catalogs:
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About this title

Synopsis

An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets. Later, when the reading is done he asks a woman for a drink. She declines and the author walks away, only to climb the steps to her flat, later that night. Or does he?

In Amos Oz's beguiling, intriguing story the reader never really knows where reality ends and invention begins...

About the Author

Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz was the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over forty languages, including his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. His last novel, Judas, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 and won the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award. He received several international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize and the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize. He died in December 2018.