In the Image: A Novel

Awards:   Winner of National Jewish Book Award (First-Time Author) 2002
Author:   Dara Horn
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
ISBN:  

9780393051063


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   17 September 2002
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained


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In the Image: A Novel


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  • Winner of National Jewish Book Award (First-Time Author) 2002

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"In the Image is an extraordinary first novel illuminated by spiritual exploration, one that remembers ""a language, a literature, a held hand, an entire world lived and breathed in the image of God."""" Bill Landsmann, an elderly Jewish refugee in a New Jersey suburb with a passion for travel, is obsessed with building his slide collection of images from the Bible that he finds scattered throughout the world. The novel begins when he crosses paths with his granddaughter's friend, Leora, and continues by moving forward through her life and backward through his, revealing the unexpected links between his family's past and her family's future. Not just a first novel but a cultural event—a wedding of secular and religious forms of literature—In the Image neither lives in the past nor seeks to escape it, but rather assimilates it, in the best sense of the word, honoring what is lost and finding, among the lost things, the treasures that can renew the present. Reading group guide included."

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Author:   Dara Horn
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:   Width: 16.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.565kg
ISBN:  

9780393051063


ISBN 10:   0393051064
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   17 September 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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Dara Horn is the author of five novels and was one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. She has taught Jewish literature at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yeshiva University. She lives in New Jersey with her family.

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