Light fell /
Twenty years have passed since Joseph left behind his entire life--his wife Rebecca, his five sons, his father, and the religious Israeli farming community where he grew up--when he fell in love with a man, the genius rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Their affair is long over, but its echoes continue to rever...
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| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Soho Press,
[2008]
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | Twenty years have passed since Joseph left behind his entire life--his wife Rebecca, his five sons, his father, and the religious Israeli farming community where he grew up--when he fell in love with a man, the genius rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Their affair is long over, but its echoes continue to reverberate through the lives of Joseph, Rebecca, and their sons in ways that none of them could have predicted. Now, for his fiftieth birthday, Joseph is preparing to have his five sons and the daughter-in-law he has never met spend the Sabbath with him in the Tel Aviv penthouse that he shares with a man--who is conveniently out of town that weekend. This will be the first time Joseph and all his sons will be together in nearly two decades. The boys' lives have taken widely varying paths. While some have become extremely religious, another is completely cosmopolitan and secular, and their feelings toward their father range from acceptance to bitter resentment. As they prepare for this reunion, Joseph, his sons, and even Rebecca, must confront what was, what is, and what could have been. |
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| Item Description: | "Portion of this novel appeared in Zeek: a journal of thought and culture (www.zeek.net) in 2007"--Title page verso. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is signed by the author. |
| Physical Description: | 229 pages ; 22 cm |
| Awards: | American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2009. Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, 2009. |
| ISBN: | 1569474672 9781569474679 9781569475362 1569475369 |