| God Knows Contributor(s): Heller, Joseph (Author) |
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ISBN: 0684841258 ISBN-13: 9780684841250 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1997 Annotation: This zany, sexy version of the story of King David, told as a modern allegory of what it is like for a Jew to survive in a hostile world, is "original, sad, wildly funny, and filled with roaring. . . . Heller's King David, a splendid creation, is not so much a man for all seasons as man in all his seasons" ("The New York Times Book Review"). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97025490 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.51" W x 8.45" (0.73 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David -- yes, King David -- but as you've never seen him before. You already know David as the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon; now meet David as he really was: the cocky Jewish kid, the plagiarized poet, and the Jewish father. Listen as David tells his own story, a story both relentlessly ancient and surprisingly modern, about growing up and growing old, about men and women, and about man and God. It is quintessential Heller. |
Contributor Bio(s): Heller, Joseph: - Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn in 1923. In 1961, he published Catch-22, which became a bestseller and, in 1970, a film. He went on to write such novels as Good as Gold, God Knows, Picture This, Closing Time, and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. Heller died in 1999. |