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Her Body Knows: Two Novellas
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 892.436
EAN: 9780312425050
ISBN: 0312425058
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: July 11, 2006
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: July 11, 2006
Studio: Picador
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Editorial Review:
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A fevered storyteller and a captive audience revisit the past in both of David Grossman's novellas, trying to make sense of a betrayal that neither one can put to rest. In Frenzy, a reserved and respectable man draws his sister-in-law into a paranoid conviction---that his wife is having an affair. In the title novella, a successful but embittered novelist delivers a merciless account of her dying mother's love affair with a much younger teenage boy. "Suffused with delirious tension and characters more substantial than in most novels twice its size" (The Village Voice), Her Body Knows is a disquieting journey into the nature of infidelity and desire.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A must
I just could not let go. I read it in a frenzy to get to the end of the story . He goes far to show the capabilities of the humand mind in the first story,where the husband goes round and round in torment and self torture for ten years. The second story was my favorite ,touching the mother daughter relationship.The parts about Yoga ,giving,working with the body,the character of Nili created by the daughter is a real gem.
Rating: - "Women's Literature"? Fiddlesticks!!!
This book, which drew me in from the start, and I read it slowly (in the original Hebrew), made me realise how ridiculous it is to talk about 'women's literature', as if only women writers can really understand women enough to write about them. David Grossman gets into the depths of the heart and souls of his protagonists almost better than any woman could, in both these novellas and in "Someone to run with" - you can literally feel all that they feel as you read. Magnificent!
Rating: - it's all in the passion
This is an engaging exploration of passion, the kind that can grab you and not let go. The two novellas each concern forms of passion that many of us would say verge on the pathological. Grossman sucks you in immediately, making the book hard to put down. The relationship between the mother and daughter in the second novella is especially stunning in its depth and depiction.
Although I mostly have high praise, I had some misgivings with this book. First the unfair criticism. David ... Read More
Rating: - Under someone else's skin? In some one else's soul !
These are two other gems of novellas from David Grossman's ever haunting, amazing pen..... Drawn in from the first sentence, not just under the skin of his protagonists, but into their veins, travelling in their blood and cells to their very soul and beyond - that's the feeling I always get when reading his books - His imagery and vocabulary are gifts to the mind and I savor them long after my eyes have devoured them ---- read on, MacDuf !
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