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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Grossman, David. Lion's honey. (OCoLC)263025737 |
Named Person: | Samson, (Biblical judge); Samson, (Biblical judge) |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Grossman; Stuart Schoffman |
ISBN: | 9780802197719 080219771X |
OCLC Number: | 886582238 |
Notes: | "Printed in the USA 04/07"--Page 4 of cover |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxix, 155 pages) |
Series Title: | Myths (Canongate Publishing) |
Other Titles: | Devash arayot. |
Responsibility: | David Grossman ; translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman. |
Abstract:
Revisits Samson's famous battle with the lion, his many women and his betrayal by them all, including the only one he ever loved. This title reveals the journey of a single, lonely and tortured soul who never found a true home in world, who was uncomfortable in his very body and who, some might say, was the precursor of today's suicide bombers.
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Extraordinary, ground-breaking, empowering. * * Guardian * * His journey takes us to the heart of ourselves, in this millennia-old creation of a man like Oedipus whose tragedy was that his own predestined story was too big for his soul to bear. -- The Independent One of contemporary literature's most versatile and absorbing writers. -- San Francisco Chronicle Read more...
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