Inside, Outside: A Novel - Couverture souple

Wouk, Herman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0316955299 ISBN 13 : 9780316955294

Editeur : Back Bay Books, 1995

Synopsis

From Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Herman Wouk, Inside, Outside is a rich and compelling story—beautifully focused and often hilarious.

Israel David Goodkind is a minor bureaucrat in the Nixon White House, killing empty office time by writing the story of four generations of his large, sprawling Russian Jewish immigrant family. As he recounts his brief stint in show business, his torrid affair with a showgirl, and his encounters with a hassled and distracted President Nixon, Goodkind also witnesses historical events firsthand—the Watergate scandal, the Yom Kippur War—and eventually finds his way back to his Jewish faith.

Combining Wouk's wildly funny streak with deeply religious passages—and some intensely intimate romantic scenes rare in this reticent author's work—Inside, Outside is a striking departure from the traditional storytelling mode in which the author has won international fame, and yet it may be the most truly characteristic of all his writings. Written in the first person in a free-form, often ribald style, playing antic tricks with time, it offers all the passion, depth, historical detail, and humor that has made Wouk a best-selling author around the world.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Herman Wouk's classic novel moves on from the grand themes which have won him international acclaim - war, the fate of nations, and the indomitable spirit of man - to the quest for identity, in the clash between the Inside of faith and family and the Outside of the glittery American dream.

Inside, Outside sweeps through more than sixty years, from the pre-war, pre-atomic innocence of the twenties and thirties to the turbulent immediate past. Scenes of rollicking family humour and show-business comedy alternate with sudden tragedy, the spectacle of a falling President and the explosion of war. A bittersweet first love, relived after forty years, and a tense secret wartime mission between Washington and Jerusalem call forth the author's renowned storytelling gift. An intense, personal book about intimate things, Inside, Outside is a merry, poignant, sometimes ribald picture of the American Jewish experience, by a master at the peak of his powers.

Biographie de l'auteur

Herman Wouk is the author of The Caine Mutiny, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, and Inside, Outside. His latest novel is The Lawgiver, a romantic comedy about the seeming impossibility of making a movie about the life of Moses. Born in the Bronx in 1915, he has lived in Manhattan, the Virgin Islands, and Washington, DC. He now resides in Palm Springs, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Back Bay Books
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0316955299
• ISBN 13: 9780316955294
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 655
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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