Guide for the Perplexed
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (527 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679739696 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 342 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Levi's audacious debut rings changes on a variety of intellectual themes while chronicling the friendship of two women, both visitors in Spain, who discover their common bonds
"a hard shiny gem of the universal." according to Gerald Weaver. When confronting the raucous and unruly throng of diverse talents that are Jonathan Levi, a man who accurately believes himself to be Jonathan Levi, one knows hardly how or where to begin, (only to stay away from his Wikipedia page because it will give you crippling envy.) A Guide for the Perplexed is an expression of these envious and massive e. A Customer said The tanscendent power of a story.. I was drawn in by Levi's ability to craft a sentence, and forever affected by what he has to say.Yes, the Levi treads the line between the uncanny and the preposterous. Some of this is delightful (the origins of baseball and the name Florida), and some is nearly intolerably silly (deep historical references in Led Zeppelin lyrics). Through most . "the bees in the bourgainvillea lifted their thoraxes in awe" according to A Customer. is my favorite line from the book. It's little over the top at times, but it is full of lush images and ideas that layer on top of one another. Lovely.
In "a fable of fantastical lushness" (New York Times Book Review), Levi tells of two women, stranded in a bewitching Spanish town, and both searching for the same mysterious man, who pass the time by telling stories. "(A) complicated tale of travel, exile, and renewal."--Washington Post Book World.