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New York, NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [12], 322 pages. Price clipped. This is a Helen and Kurt … Más…

New York, NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [12], 322 pages. Price clipped. This is a Helen and Kurt Wolff book. Signed on the title page. Amos Oz (Hebrew: ; born Amos Klausner; 4 May 1939 - 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He was the author of 40 books, including novels, short story collections, children's books, and essays, and his work has been published in 45 languages, more than that of any other Israeli writer. He was the recipient of many honors and awards, among them the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels, the Legion of Honour of France, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award in Literature, the Heinrich Heine Prize, and the Franz Kafka Prize. Oz is regarded as one of "Israel's most prolific writers and respected intellectuals", as The New York Times worded it in an obituary. Fima lives in Jerusalem but feels that he ought to be somewhere else. In the course of his life he has had several love affairs, written a book of poems that aroused some expectations and thought about the purpose of the universe and where his country has lost its way. Derived from a Kirkus review: A slyly satiric walking tour through the closing years of Israel's first half-century-as refracted through the mind of an ineffectual, quirky dreamer constitutionally beset by the most mundane details of his daily routine. Efraim Nisan is a middle-aged functionary who nightly records the jarring, revelatory dreams that alternate with a waking life scarcely less dreamlike in its episodic inconclusiveness. Fima has disappointed his father Baruch Nomberg, a right-wing cosmetics manufacturer, by settling for a job as receptionist at a gynecological clinic, and disappointed his ex-wife Yael Levin, an aeronautical researcher, by letting her walk away from their marriage and into the arms of supercilious American Ted Tobias. Fima keeps disappointing himself too on a daily basis. Fascinated by charismatic Uri Gefen, he settles for sleeping with his wife, Nina, who ends each dutiful bout of lovemaking by scrubbing herself, then scrubbing the toilet and sink as well. Drawn to clinic patient Annette Tadmor, he forces himself to listen over coffee and vodka to her litany of marital complaints, only to find that he's equally chagrined whether or not they end up in bed. Fima can't even kill a cockroach without being forestalled by its reflection of the vilified Jewish people. Drifting through the streets of Jerusalem convening his own imaginary cabinet meetings to solve the nation's political and moral problems, he's most satisfied only when he's playing with Dimi Tobias, Yael's ten-year-old son. All Fima's dissatisfied longings come to a head in a magical, climactic epiphany on a Friday afternoon ramble through Jerusalem and its sequel, which shows Fima finally coming to terms with his status as a present-day Wandering Jew. Deeply, sweetly comic in the manner of Gogol. Essayist and novelist Oz has never focused such large matters so adroitly on such a delicate fulcrum-or created a more endearing hero., Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993, 3<

1993, ISBN: 9780151898510

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Funk & Wagnalls. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Woodcut Illustrations. Frontispiece cleanly excised, else a complete, tight copy, clean and unmarked. In a Brodart jacket cover. Sc… Más…

Funk & Wagnalls. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Woodcut Illustrations. Frontispiece cleanly excised, else a complete, tight copy, clean and unmarked. In a Brodart jacket cover. Scarce., Funk & Wagnalls, 3, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book Small plain label inside cover.EX H. K. LEWIS MEDICAL & SCIENTIFIC LENDING LIBRARY .One withdrawn bookplate.D/J mostly complete but with tape markings on reverse only Poor., Princeton University Press, 1960, 1.75, New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has a mild sun-fading to the spine. The book is fine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 322 p. Audience: General/trade. By the late Bialik Prize-, Peace Prize of the German Book Trade-, Legion of Honour-, Israel Prize-, Ovid Prize-, Goethe Prize-, Prince of Asturias Award-, and Heinrich Heine Prize-winning author of 'Judas' and 'A Perfect Peace'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1993, 4.5<

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New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very good in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page. 1st editio… Más…

New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very good in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has a mild sun-fading to the spine. Moisture exposure has caused rippling to the pageblock. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 322 p. Audience: General/trade. By the late Bialik Prize-, Peace Prize of the German Book Trade-, Legion of Honour-, Israel Prize-, Ovid Prize-, Goethe Prize-, Prince of Asturias Award-, and Heinrich Heine Prize-winning author of 'Judas' and 'A Perfect Peace'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1993, 3.5<

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Hardcover, Fine in fine jacket, [ED: 1], signed by author collectible, Size: 9x6x1; NOT an ex library book. Signature of author on the front endpaper. 322 pages. Dust jacket has no chips … Más…

Hardcover, Fine in fine jacket, [ED: 1], signed by author collectible, Size: 9x6x1; NOT an ex library book. Signature of author on the front endpaper. 322 pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped., [PU: Harcourt]<

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[EAN: 9780151898510], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Harcourt], Jacket, NOT an ex library book. Signature of author on the front endpaper. 322 pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped., Books<