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Everything Is Illuminated
by Foer, Jonathan Safran
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0618173870
- ISBN 13
- 9780618173877
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About This Item
Houghton MIfflin Company. Boston. New York, 2002. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 276 pages. The author's first novel, after a collection of short stories. Intricate in structure, fantastical in it's story, and irreverent in 100 different ways. "Told with unwayering charm and wit" - Nathan Englander, (from the cover blurb). Back cover blurb by Joyce Carol Oates. Winner of the first Sayroyan Writing Prize, and the 2002 Guardian Prize for fiction. Shared Young Lions Award, under 35, with The Shell Collector. Basis for the critically acclaimed film starring Elijah Wood. Design by Anne Chalmers. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection..
Synopsis
Everything Is Illuminated is the first novel by the American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, published in 2002. It was adapted into a film starring Elijah Wood in 2005.
Reviews
On Nov 10 2013, CloggieDownunder said:
Everything Is Illuminated is the first novel by American author, Jonathan Safran Foer. This novel is written in three “voices”. The story of Jonathan Safran Foer’s search, in the Ukraine, for the family who rescued his grandfather from the Nazis during World War Two is narrated by the translator who accompanied him, Alexander Perchov. Alex claims to be “fluid” in English, and enhances his narration with the use of a Thesaurus provided by Jonathan. Jonathan also sends Alex sections of a slightly bizarre novel he is writing about his ancestors, in particular his great great great great great grandmother, and his grandfather. And finally, included are Alex’s letters to Jonathan which relate occurrences in his family’s life, comment on the sections of the novel and respond to corrections to the narrative that Jonathan has suggested. Whilst ultimately a holocaust novel, Safran Foer manages to inject plenty of humour with his characters (the “blind” grandfather driver with his seeing-eye bitch, Sammy Davis Junior, Junior; an ancestor with a blade in his head; a young Ukrainian with an ambition to be an accountant, who is saving to go to America by eschewing nightclubs in favour of the beach), with his fantastic eighteenth century Polish-Ukrainian Jewish shtetl full of whacky inhabitants and customs, and with the often hilarious results of generous if totally misguided use of a Thesaurus. The Thesaurus-enhanced narrative clearly demonstrates the importance of context. Clever, even if it is a bit pretentious.
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- Bookseller
- Marvin Minkler Modern First Editions (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2878
- Title
- Everything Is Illuminated
- Author
- Foer, Jonathan Safran
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0618173870
- ISBN 13
- 9780618173877
- Publisher
- Houghton MIfflin Company. Boston. New York
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2002
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