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Holy lands : a novel
- Title
- Holy lands : a novel / Amanda Sthers.
- Author
- Sthers, Amanda, 1978-
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-2296 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 161 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- A witty, heartwarming, and heart-wrenching epistolary novel, soon to be a major motion picture starring James Caan, Rosanna Arquette, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, about a dysfunctional family--led by a Jewish pig farmer in Israel--struggling to love and accept each other. As comic as it is deeply moving, Holy Lands chronicles several months in the lives of an estranged family of colorful eccentrics. Harry Rosenmerck is an aging Jewish cardiologist who has left his thriving medical practice in New York--to raise pigs in Israel. His ex-wife, Monique, ruminates about their once happy marriage even as she quietly battles an aggressive illness. Their son, David, an earnest and successful playwright, has vowed to reconnect with his father since coming out. Annabelle, their daughter, finds herself unmoored in Paris in the aftermath of a breakup. Harry eschews technology, so his family, spread out around the world, must communicate with him via snail mail. Even as they grapple with challenges, their correspondence sparkles with levity. They snipe at each other, volleying quips across the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and Europe, and find joy in unexpected sources. Holy Lands captures the humor and poignancy of an adult family striving to remain connected across time, geography, and radically different perspectives on life.
- Uniform Title
- Terres saintes. English
- Alternative Title
- Terres saintes.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Epistolary fiction.
- Fiction.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-2296
- ISBN
- 9781635572834
- 1635572835
- 9781635572810 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018015184
- OCLC
- 1031431679
- Author
- Sthers, Amanda, 1978- author, translator.
- Title
- Holy lands : a novel / Amanda Sthers.
- Publisher
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the French.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781635572810
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-2296