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Jacob´s Folly
Rebecca Miller
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Description for Jacob´s Folly
Paperback. Masha Edelman yearns for a life on the stage and to escape her strict religious family. Miles away, in a safe suburban neighbourhood, family man Leslie Senzatimore longs to be a hero. They have little idea of what lies ahead for them. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 261.
'Wonderful' Kate Atkinson
'Highly original' The Times
'Witty and moving' Mail on Sunday
Masha Edelman yearns for a life on the stage and to escape her strict religious family. Miles away, in a safe suburban neighbourhood, family man Leslie Senzatimore longs to be a hero. They have little idea of what lies ahead for them. Through a cosmic sleight of hand enters Jacob, a man who has travelled a long way through time, and is determined to make his mark on the lives of these two strangers. What follows is a rollicking, sparkling story of kinship, freedom and belonging.
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Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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About Rebecca Miller
Rebecca Miller is a writer and director. She is the author of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, a Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club pick, which she also adapted for screen; Personal Velocity, her feature film of which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance; and Jacob's Folly. Her film work includes Angela, The Ballad of ... Read moreJack and Rose and Maggie's Plan. Her work has been published in thirty-two languages. Show Less
Reviews for Jacob´s Folly
Jacob's Folly is an extraordinary book. Miller's writing is vigorous, powerful and riveting. I was constantly surprised by the flights and dips of narrative, and its complexity, while from start to finish her wit and the clear, true characters kept the book grounded. A magnificent achievement
Sadie Jones, author of The Outcast A wonderful book - fresh, original, always ... Read moresurprising, with delightfully drawn characters. Rebecca Miller is an excellent novelist
Kate Atkinson A highly imaginative exercise that turns out to be comic, raucous and tender, sometimes all at once
Sunday Telegraph
Miller's prose is rich. Eccentric, witty, highly original
The Times
Original and imaginative, this beautifully written novel is a witty and moving read; magical realism darkly filtered through a European eye
Mail on Sunday
Glittering... ambitious, thought-provoking and frequently hilarious
Financial Times
An intriguing jewel of a novel about temptation and desire
Observer
In Jacob's Folly, Rebecca Miller has landed on a narrative voice that's antique, droll, racy and occasionally cutting...a delicately balanced triple narrative that jumps across centuries... this is an imaginative leap in new direction, yolking historical fiction to a contemporary drama
Los Angeles Times
Bravura storytelling elevates this tale - narrated by a fly on the wall - from the merely fanciful to the fantastic... Miller has sent her characters on a daring odyssey that traverses history, religion, philosophy and cultural identity
New York Times Book Review
Jacob's Folly is an ingenious, meticulously observed, profoundly absorbing and deeply satisfying read
USA Today
Narratively speaking it's a remarkable feat how the author/filmaker [Rebecca Miller] agilely threads together three distinct narratives... Jacob's Folly is a rare book from a rare breed of artist
Kirkus Reviews
The novel breathes sensuality... Readers will chuckle contentedly and without malice at a violent, life-affirming death. A deeply pleasurable, darkly comic, and original reinterpretation of Jewish history's "indestructible storyline"
Booklist
Jacob's Folly is lively and unpredictable, but its antic humour disguises what is at heart a chastening cautionary tale
Wall Street Journal
Scads of narrative threads are sewn together with impressive and often lovely wordplay to form a vast historical fabric of Jacob's Jewish family... An unusual and absorbing read
Publishers Weekly
As brilliant as it is bizarre. Miller explores themes of identity, religion, ambition, guilt, desire, all through the consciousness of a fly. And yes, she pulls it off
Glamour
Like Rip Van Winkle rewritten by Franz Kafka... [Miller] writes... with humour and grace
New Yorker Observer
Thanks to Rebecca Miller's densely detailed prose, [Jacob's] transformation seems quite believable, propelling Jacob's Folly on its own strange and often wonderful flight
Boston Globe
A feat of extraordinary imagination, a sexy, unapologetically lyrical novel that looks at the danger and allure of assimilation and the power of transformation, while blowing dust off the centuries-old question of fate versus free will
Vanity Fair
Rebecca Miller is a luminous writer
Observer
Marvellous, deep and rich, sexy, transgressive, terrifying and tough, and very, very funny-a great ingathering as multifaceted as a gem, or the eye of a fly!
Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in America Miller's writing style is sensuous, and her individual stories expand, opulently, in scope and emotional impact
NPR
Fantastically original... Miller... is a writer whose graceful and original language make the challenge of Jacob's Folly a rewarding one. Her literary sensibility is vast and deep
Moment Magazine
Rebecca Miller's graceful, ambitious novel spans time and geography and juggles several enmeshed narrative threads nimbly. She creates memorable characters with dark wit, lyrical prose and a propulsive storytelling rhythm... Dickensian and audacious, this imaginative novel has a cinematic quality...
USA Today
Miller's novel raises important questions about what family means, and what society means, especially when one is at odds with the other
Scotsman
Jacob's Folly is a virtuoso performance... an assured, magnificent novel that deploys the difficult it-narrative (from the perspective of an animal or object) with aplomb
West Australian
Miller's creation is both brilliant and bizarre. Exploring themes of religion, identity, and the poser of hopes and dreams, she has created a genuinely original read
Glamour
Raunchy, rollicking and inventive, Miller explores love and reincarnation in the daft but delightful tale
Easy Living
A meditation on faith, goodness and freedom, Jacob's Folly is a cleverly executed and compelling novel. Darkly funny and rich with colour, this is one to savour
We Love This Book
Miller is extremely sharp on the complexities of Jewish identity
The Sunday Times
An intriguing book, with enough fizz and colour to make for a satisfying read
Jewish Chronicle
From the outset the narrative is laden with thought-provoking themes... But there are moments of wry humour too
Herald
An ingenious and ambitious flight of fancy
Metro
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