Forest Dark A Novel (Signed) by Nicole Krauss 2017 First Edition Hardcover w/DJ

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Country of Origin
United States
Binding
Hardcover
Product Group
Book
Modification Description
Signed by Author for Roberta & Bob
Signed By
Author
Signed
Yes
Book Series
N/A
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Fiction
Age Level
Adults
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed
No
Modified Item
Yes
Edition
First Edition
Vintage
No
Personalize
No
Type
Novel
Literary Movement
N/A
Era
N/A
Special Attributes
1st Edition
Personalized
Yes
Features
Dust Jacket
ISBN
9780062430991
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062430998
ISBN-13
9780062430991
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234794628

Product Key Features

Book Title
Forest Dark : a Novel
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary, Jewish
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Author
Nicole Krauss
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
0.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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LCCN
2018-295058
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A literary adventure in a different kind of storytelling...Krauss' voice in fiction is still original: She crafts beautiful sentences, challenges form and ideas, creates characters alive to possibility and she's funny., Wildly imaginative, darkly humorous and deeply personal, this novel seems to question the very nature of time and space. Krauss commands our attention, and serious readers will applaud., Krauss's elegant, provocative, and mesmerizing novel is her best yet. Rich in profound insights and emotional resonance...Vivid, intelligent, and often humorous, this novel is a fascinating tour de force., "Forest Dark is a novel that resists our presumptions of what a novel should do." - Ron Charles, Washington Post "A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." - Philip Roth "...Krauss writes for those who want to co-create a world with her. By the ends of her novels, a reader has ideas about how these characters' lives intersect..." - Moment Magazine "Delving into the metaphysical and the spiritual realms, Krauss presents a stirring...exploration of the 'unformed and nameless life' that exists alongside the one we're consciously living." - The New Yorker "A thought-provoking and captivating book." - Ploughshares "In this novel, metamorphosis dances across the pages, with nods to Jewish literary lions and masters of magical realism Sholem Asch, Bruno Schulz, and I. L. Peretz. Here we see Krauss giving shape to the Jewish literary canon of the future...A pulsing intelligence courses through Forest Dark." - Erica Brody, Hadassah Magazine "... a cerebral, dual-stranded tale of disillusionment and spiritual quest..." - Heather McAlpin, NPR "Forest Dark is a feast. Dazzling, beautiful, powerful, bewildering, consumed by things eternal: a romance of metamorphosis, creation, and nostalgia for home." - Christian Century "... Nicole Krauss' fourth and most interior, introspective, cerebral, and autobiographical novel to date..." - New York Journal of Books "Forest Dark is a literary achievement..." - Chicago Jewish Review "A hybrid work of fiction, memoir and literary criticism..." - Associated Press "Brilliant, inventive and ambitious." - USA Today "A triumphant new novel...that suggests a determination to stretch conventional narrative in unconventional directions...Krauss' prose balances precision and grace...This author is incapable of writing a sentence that does not seem chiseled to perfection...In Forest Dark, Nicole Krauss has once again mastered a light touch in pursuit of weighty themes." - San Francisco Chronicle "She writes insight and revelation better than just about anyone working today...While Krauss' genius has long been evident, of her four books this one cuts closest to the bone. The woods may be dark but Krauss' gorgeous sentences light our way through." - O Magazine "A literary adventure in a different kind of storytelling...Krauss' voice in fiction is still original: She crafts beautiful sentences, challenges form and ideas, creates characters alive to possibility and she's funny." - Jewish Week "The tangled necessity of such double-ness is one of Krauss' core themes and the key to her characters' quests: how we are at once shaped and confined by the forms we require for life, be they stories, relationships, or places." - Boston Globe "The feelings Epstein and Nicole have about their lives and loves feel hard-earned and true...The resonances between these characters are often profound. Both are searching for their true selves, an ocean away from the old lives that have tested their faith." - The Economist "Krauss expertly intertwines musings on theology and the life of Franz Kafka in this beautifully written follow-up to the National Book Award finalist The Great House." - Buzzfeed, Strange and beguiling...a mystery that operates on grounds simultaneously literary and existential...metaphysical and emphatically realistic...It's a perfectly Kafkaesque vision, almost uncanny enough to be sublime., Forest Dark had me from the start...This is very much a Krauss novel. Her voice and distinctive intellectual detours cause sparks that are hers alone...Is there a finer method of escape than to write? Or to read? The writing Krauss engages in deliberately straddles the frontiers of resonant fiction and recognizable self. It offers a vast space in which one can lose oneself, but it also supplies some level of closure to bring us back., "Wildly imaginative, darkly humorous and deeply personal, this novel seems to question the very nature of time and space. Krauss commands our attention, and serious readers will applaud."                                                                                                 , In this novel, metamorphosis dances across the pages, with nods to Jewish literary lions and masters of magical realism Sholem Asch, Bruno Schulz, and I. L. Peretz. Here we see Krauss giving shape to the Jewish literary canon of the future...A pulsing intelligence courses through Forest Dark., A triumphant new novel...that suggests a determination to stretch conventional narrative in unconventional directions...Krauss' prose balances precision and grace...This author is incapable of writing a sentence that does not seem chiseled to perfection...In Forest Dark, Nicole Krauss has once again mastered a light touch in pursuit of weighty themes., She writes insight and revelation better than just about anyone working today...While Krauss' genius has long been evident, of her four books this one cuts closest to the bone. The woods may be dark but Krauss' gorgeous sentences light our way through., Forest Dark is a feast. Dazzling, beautiful, powerful, bewildering, consumed by things eternal: a romance of metamorphosis, creation, and nostalgia for home., This is as original and impressive a work of fiction as I have encountered in years; a welcome reminder of how a novel can be defiantly and brilliantly novel., Only a handful of books that come out each year immediately signal 'masterpiece.' Nicole Krauss' Forest Dark, a brilliant effort that defines the human condition in an original way, is one of them...While the storylines of Epstein and Nicole never quite touch, they reflect and illuminate each other in dozens of ways...and generate an outcome that is far more than the sum of its parts. This structural inventiveness, coupled with the author's soaring imagination, probing intelligence, and exquisite style, screams masterpiece., The feelings Epstein and Nicole have about their lives and loves feel hard-earned and true...The resonances between these characters are often profound. Both are searching for their true selves, an ocean away from the old lives that have tested their faith., Forest Dark is epic, though in its own way: quiet, eerie, touchingly inchoate. It is an epic of loneliness, a testimony of and to longing that remains unfulfilled...Krauss has always been a writer interested in the hidden, spiritual dimension of things, and her work concerns itself with the mystical, the metaphysical, the mysterious... Forest Dark is beautiful and complex but subtle and so closer to truth...It is elegant and shimmering, a slant of light shining long enough to make us wonder., Forest Dark tackles that ultimate question [the meaning of life]...Nicole Krauss takes chances with form...The pleasure of Krauss' writing...is in the wayward precision of her language that draws us into the desert, 'the forest dark' and other contemplative places where illumination occurs., Delving into the metaphysical and the spiritual realms, Krauss presents a stirring...exploration of the 'unformed and nameless life' that exists alongside the one we're consciously living., One of the bravest and most original writers of her generation... Forest Dark--the best new novel I've read this year...Krauss' intrepid journey into this forest reveals great secrets, involving the tales we tell as we whistle in the dark., "Entrancing and mysterious...Krauss reflects with singing emotion and sagacity on Jewish history; war; the ancient, plundered forests of the Middle East; and the paradoxes of being. A resounding look at the enigmas of the self and the persistence of the past." , Lucid and exhilarating...Elias Canetti once wrote of Kafka that he sought, above all, to preserve his freedom to fail. In this spirit, Krauss, an incisive and creative interpreter of Kafka, allows Nicole and Epstein to regain their own freedom to fail. This particular freedom should never be taken lightly. It's a great gift not only to her characters, but to her readers., Nicole Krauss remains accessible through all of the risks she takes, which might be her greatest feat...Forest Dark expands the possibilities of what the novel is capable of...The novel is a whirlwind, pure and simple. It might not tie up every loose end, but its force is undeniable., Entrancing and mysterious...Krauss reflects with singing emotion and sagacity on Jewish history; war; the ancient, plundered forests of the Middle East; and the paradoxes of being. A resounding look at the enigmas of the self and the persistence of the past., Delving into the metaphysical and the spiritual realms, Krauss presents a stirring, sprawling exploration of the 'unformed and nameless life' that exists alongside the one we're consciously living., This book is the morning after a fever dream--a constant reminder that you once saw the world differently. And it's hard to once again face the ordinary and the routine after this...Forest Dark starts as a mystery about a void in the world left by a man's peculiar disappearance but quickly descends into a mystery about a void that formed within him before he ever went missing in the first place. It begins to feel like he isn't missing from the world, but that the world is missing from him. Which, admittedly, sounds a lot like the subject of a Hammett novel reimagined by Pirandello. It quibbles with the idea that when we go--wherever it is we go to--it is not just those who remain that are without us, but that we too are also without them., ... Nicole Krauss' fourth and most interior, introspective, cerebral, and autobiographical novel to date..., Forest Dark is Ms. Krauss's attempt to release herself from the conventions of form and rationality--to swim 'against the forceful current of understanding.' It adapts the themes and the narrative tricks of The Counterlife, imagining alternate realities while occupying the shadow space between autobiography and fiction... One of the steep pleasures of Forest Dark is how unabashedly bookish it is...., Magnificent. . . . A richly layered masterpiece; creative, profound, insightful, deeply serious, effortlessly elegant, both human and humane. Krauss is a poet and a philosopher, and this latest work does what only the very best fiction can do--startles, challenges and enlightens the reader, while showing the familiar world anew., Krauss, as ever, writes beautifully about complex themes, and she has a keen eye for the way Israel's culture, slower but more alert to violence, requires its American characters to reboot their perceptions..., Illuminating...[Forest Dark] builds to a powerful emotional crescendo and an ending that feels revelatory. Haunting and reflective, poetic and wise, this is another masterful work from one of America's best writers., Forest Dark finds Krauss at the top of her game. It is blazingly intelligent, elegantly written, and a remarkable achievement., ...Krauss writes for those who want to co-create a world with her. By the ends of her novels, a reader has ideas about how these characters' lives intersect..., Krauss expertly intertwines musings on theology and the life of Franz Kafka in this beautifully written follow-up to the National Book Award finalist The Great House., The tangled necessity of such double-ness is one of Krauss' core themes and the key to her characters' quests: how we are at once shaped and confined by the forms we require for life, be they stories, relationships, or places.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
National Bestseller - A New York Times Notable Book Named Best Book of the Year by Esquire, Times Literary Supplement, Elle Magazine, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Financial Times, Guardian, Refinery29, PopSugar, and Globe and Mail "A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." --Philip Roth "One of America's most important novelists" ( New York Times ), the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love , conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals--an older lawyer and a young novelist--whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert. Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized personality have, for sixty-eight years, been a force to be reckoned with, is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents' deaths, his divorce from his wife of more than thirty years, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner, he's felt an irresistible need to give away his possessions, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With the last of his wealth, he travels to Israel, with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents. In Tel Aviv, he is sidetracked by a charismatic American rabbi planning a reunion for the descendants of King David who insists that Epstein is part of that storied dynastic line. He also meets the rabbi's beautiful daughter who convinces Epstein to become involved in her own project--a film about the life of David being shot in the desert--with life-changing consequences. But Epstein isn't the only seeker embarking on a metaphysical journey that dissolves his sense of self, place, and history. Leaving her family in Brooklyn, a young, well-known novelist arrives at the Tel Aviv Hilton where she has stayed every year since birth. Troubled by writer's block and a failing marriage, she hopes that the hotel can unlock a dimension of reality--and her own perception of life--that has been closed off to her. But when she meets a retired literature professor who proposes a project she can't turn down, she's drawn into a mystery that alters her life in ways she could never have imagined. Bursting with life and humor, Forest Dark is a profound, mesmerizing novel of metamorphosis and self-realization--of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite., National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 Named Best Book of 2017 by Esquire, Times Literary Supplement, Elle Magazine, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Financial Times, Guardian, Refinery29, Popsugar, and Globe and Mail "A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." --Philip Roth "One of America's most important novelists" ( New York Times ), the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love , conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals--an older lawyer and a young novelist--whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert. Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized personality have, for sixty-eight years, been a force to be reckoned with, is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents' deaths, his divorce from his wife of more than thirty years, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner, he's felt an irresistible need to give away his possessions, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With the last of his wealth, he travels to Israel, with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents. In Tel Aviv, he is sidetracked by a charismatic American rabbi planning a reunion for the descendants of King David who insists that Epstein is part of that storied dynastic line. He also meets the rabbi's beautiful daughter who convinces Epstein to become involved in her own project--a film about the life of David being shot in the desert--with life-changing consequences. But Epstein isn't the only seeker embarking on a metaphysical journey that dissolves his sense of self, place, and history. Leaving her family in Brooklyn, a young, well-known novelist arrives at the Tel Aviv Hilton where she has stayed every year since birth. Troubled by writer's block and a failing marriage, she hopes that the hotel can unlock a dimension of reality--and her own perception of life--that has been closed off to her. But when she meets a retired literature professor who proposes a project she can't turn down, she's drawn into a mystery that alters her life in ways she could never have imagined. Bursting with life and humor, Forest Dark is a profound, mesmerizing novel of metamorphosis and self-realization--of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite.
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PS3611.R38F67 2017

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