The Instructions: 13th Anniversary Bar Mitzvah Edition - Couverture souple

Levin, Adam

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1936365162 ISBN 13 : 9781936365166

Editeur : McSweeney's Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and 900 pages later, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular talker. Ejected from three Jewish day schools for acts of violence and messianic tendencies, Gurion ends up in the Cage, a special lockdown program for the most hopeless cases of Aptakisic Junior High. Separated from his scholarly followers, Gurion becomes a leader of a very different sort, with righteous aims building to a revolution of troubling intensity.

The Instructions is an absolutely singular work of fiction by an important new talent. Adam Levin has shaped a world driven equally by moral fervor and slapstick comedy?a novel that is muscular and verbose, troubling and empathetic, monumental, breakneck, romantic, and unforgettable.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Gurion has been expelled from three Jewish day-schools for acts of violence and messianic tendencies. He ends up in the Cage, a special lockdown program for the most hopeless cases at his new junior high school. But in just four days, from the moment he meets the beautiful Eliza June Watermark to the terrifying Events of November 17, Gurion's search for righteousness sparks a violent, unstoppable rebellion. Driven equally by moral fervour and teenage exuberance, The Instructions is hilarious, troubling, empathetic, monumental, breakneck, romantic and unforgettable.

Revue de presse

Mammoth, marvellous . . . Hysterically funny and giddyingly imagined, this is a novel of serious intent . . . Levin is both fascinated by violence and fascinating about it. --Scotsman

Adam Levin's book is the real thing, I think. It appeals to the young readers who like formal invention and ambition . . . But there's also real substance there --Dave Eggers

Evocative of David Foster Wallace . . . full of death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth. --Rolling Stone

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McSweeney's Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1936365162
• ISBN 13: 9781936365166
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 1026
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible