The Golem Of Brooklyn
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The Golem Of Brooklyn
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Author : Adam Mansbach
language : en
Publisher: One World
Release Date : 2023-09-26
The Golem Of Brooklyn written by Adam Mansbach and has been published by One World this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-26 with Fiction categories.
The dazzlingly imaginative, ferociously funny story of an art teacher, a bodega clerk, and a five-thousand-year-old clay crisis monster, from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep. “A devastating romp through history, a bonkers road trip through America, this novel could not be any funnier—or any more important.”—W. Kamau Bell In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem, and always in a time of crisis. But Len Bronstein is no rabbi—he’s a Brooklyn art teacher who steals a large quantity of clay from his school, gets extremely stoned, and manages to bring his creation to life despite knowing little about Judaism and even less about golems. Unable to communicate with his nine-foot-six, four hundred-pound, Yiddish-speaking guest, Len enlists a bodega clerk and ex-Hasid named Miri Apfelbaum to translate. Eventually, The Golem learns English by binge-watching Curb Your Enthusiasm after ingesting a massive amount of LSD and reveals that he is a creature with an ancestral memory; he recalls every previous iteration of himself, making The Golem a repository of Jewish history and trauma. He demands to know what crisis has prompted his re-creation and whom must he destroy. When Miri shows him a video of white nationalists marching and chanting “Jews will not replace us,” the answer becomes clear. The Golem of Brooklyn is an epic romp through Jewish history and the American present that wrestles with the deepest questions of our humanity—the conflicts between faith and skepticism, tribalism and interdependence, and vengeance and healing.
The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier Clay With Bonus Content
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Author : Michael Chabon
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-06-12
The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier Clay With Bonus Content written by Michael Chabon and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-12 with Fiction categories.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author—soon to be a Showtime limited series “It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post Book World Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly • Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939. A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. From the shared fears, dreams, and desires of two teenage boys, they spin comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-fighting Escapist and the beautiful, mysterious Luna Moth, otherworldly mistress of the night. Climbing from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire State Building, Joe and Sammy carve out lives, and careers, as vivid as cyan and magenta ink. Spanning continents and eras, this superb book by one of America’s finest writers remains one of the defining novels of our modern American age. Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the New York Society Library Book Award
Snow In August
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Author : Pete Hamill
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-10-31
Snow In August written by Pete Hamill and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-31 with Fiction categories.
Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time -- and another triumph for Pete Hamill. Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger. And in one close-knit working-class neighborhood, an eleven-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin has just made friends with a lonely rabbi from Prague. Snow in August is the story of that unlikely friendship -- and of how the neighborhood reacts to it. For Michael, the rabbi opens a window to ancient learning and lore that rival anything in Captain Marvel. For the rabbi, Michael illuminates the everyday mysteries of America, including the strange language of baseball. But like their hero Jackie Robinson, neither can entirely escape from the swirling prejudices of the time. Terrorized by a local gang of anti-Semitic Irish toughs, Michael and the rabbi are caught in an escalating spiral of hate for which there's only one way out -- a miracle....
Growing Up Golem
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Author : Donna Minkowitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-09
Growing Up Golem written by Donna Minkowitz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the tradition of Portnoy's Complaint and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Donna Minkowitz's Growing Up Golem is an incisive, often funny memoir about growing up inspired by the Jewish legend of the golem. The author's mother told Minkowitz and her sisters as children that she could do kabalistic magic, and growing up, Minkowitz believed it. Her mother, a compulsively creative and unusually powerful figure, exerted even more sway over Minkowitz and her sisters than mothers typically do over their offspring, so it is the "magical realist" premise of the book that instead of giving birth to her, her mother actually created Minkowitz as her own personal golem: a little clay servant designed to do anything it is ordered to. In the book, Minkowitz struggles to control her own life, even as she publicly appears to be a radical, take-no-prisoners lesbian journalist. In her career, dating, even with friends - and especially with her own eccentric, hyper-sexualized, intellectual family - Minkowitz finds herself compelled to do what other people want, to horrible and hilarious effect. In sex, for example, she often feels like "a giant robot dildo." Matters come to a head when a disabling arm injury renders her almost helpless - unable to use a computer or even lift a glass of water. She must find a way to work, find people who love her, and stand up for her own desires - against the bossing she's always tolerated from girlfriends, mother, and anyone else she meets - before her injury gets even worse.
Joe Golem And The Drowning City
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Author : Mike Mignola
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2012-03-27
Joe Golem And The Drowning City written by Mike Mignola and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-27 with Fiction categories.
In 1925, earthquakes and a rising sea level left Lower Manhattan submerged under more than thirty feet of water, so that its residents began to call it the Drowning City. Those unwilling to abandon their homes created a new life on streets turned to canals and in buildings whose first three stories were underwater. Fifty years have passed since then, and the Drowning City is full of scavengers and water rats, poor people trying to eke out an existence, and those too proud or stubborn to be defeated by circumstance. Among them are fourteen-year-old Molly McHugh and her friend and employer, Felix Orlov. Once upon a time Orlov the Conjuror was a celebrated stage magician, but now he is an old man, a psychic medium, contacting the spirits of the departed for the grieving loved ones left behind. When a seance goes horribly wrong, Felix Orlov is abducted by strange men wearing gas masks and rubber suits, and Molly soon finds herself on the run. Her flight will lead her into the company of a mysterious man, and his stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem, whose own past is a mystery to him, but who walks his own dreams as a man of stone and clay, brought to life for the sole purpose of hunting witches.
The Golem
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Author : Gustav Meyrink
language : en
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Release Date : 2010-10-25
The Golem written by Gustav Meyrink and has been published by SCB Distributors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-25 with Fiction categories.
classic novel of Kaballah & legend, tr M Mitchell
The Golem
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Author : Joachim Neugroschel
language : en
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Release Date : 2006
The Golem written by Joachim Neugroschel and has been published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
A collection of fictional writings about the folklore character of the Golem, a creature made of clay and brought to life by Rabbi Leyb of Prague in the sixteenth century, includes a translation of H. Leivick's blank verse play, Yudl Rosenberg's pamphlet of Golem tales, and additional stories by such writers as S. Bastomski, Dovid Frishman, and Y. L. Peretz.
You Have To Fucking Eat
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Author : Adam Mansbach
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2014-11-12
You Have To Fucking Eat written by Adam Mansbach and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-12 with Humor categories.
From the author of the international best seller GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP comes a book about the other great parental frustration: getting your little angel to eat something that even vaguely resembles a normal meal. Profane, loving and deeply cathartic, You Have to Fucking Eat breaks the code of child-rearing silence, giving mums and dads new, old, grand- and expectant a much-needed chance to laugh about a universal problem. You probably shouldn't read it to your children.
The Golems Of Gotham
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Author : Thane Rosenbaum
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2011-08-23
The Golems Of Gotham written by Thane Rosenbaum and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-23 with Fiction categories.
Many years have passed since Oliver Levin -- a bestselling mystery writer and a lifetime sufferer from blocked emotions -- has given any thought to his parents, Holocaust survivors who committed suicide. But now, after years of uninterrupted literary output, Oliver Levin finds himself blocked as a writer, too. Oliver's fourteen-year-old daughter, Ariel, sets out to free her father from his demons by summoning the ghosts of his parents, but, along the way, the ghosts of Primo Levi, Jerzy Kosinski, and Paul Celan, among others, also materialize in this novel of moral philosophy and unforgettable enchantment.
The Creation Of God
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Author : Rik Pinxten
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
The Creation Of God written by Rik Pinxten and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Religion categories.
"First edition, fully updated here, appeared as Goddelijke Fantasie, Antwerp, Belgium with Houtekiet Publ. in 2000."--T.p. verso