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The Book of Intimate Grammar

A Novel

By David Grossman, Betsy Rosenberg (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9780312420956

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Aron Kelinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem neighborhood, but as his 12-year-old friends begin to mature, Aaron remains imprisoned in the body of a child for three long years. While Israel inches toward the Six-Day War, and his friends cross the boundary between childhood and adContinue

Aron Kelinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem neighborhood, but as his 12-year-old friends begin to mature, Aaron remains imprisoned in the body of a child for three long years. While Israel inches toward the Six-Day War, and his friends cross the boundary between childhood and adolescence, Aron remains in his childs body, spying on the changes that adulthood wreaks as, like his hero Houdini, he struggles to escape the trap of growing up.

Critics

  • In the Ice-Box

    If language speaks us, as Lacan claimed, and as Aron – the young protagonist of The Book of Intimate Grammar – senses intuitively, then our thoughts are trapped in hand-me-down forms and even the act of investigating and naming the self is both arbit ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010

  • Escape Artist

    “Israel is an ideological state,” Yitzhak Shamir declared when he was Israel’s right-wing prime minister. Even in the Labor Party the ideology is more and more removed from its old vision of Jews united by the dream of socialism, but of course the of ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Sun, 22 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 352 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0312420951
  • ISBN-13: 9780312420956
  • Publisher: Picador
  • Pub date: Oct 04, 2002
  • Dimensions: 1419 mm x 1032 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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