The Lawgiver
By
Herman Wouk
Read by
Peter Riegert,
Zosia Mamet
Release:
11/13/2012
Release:
11/13/2012
Runtime:
4h 56m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“Witty and wise…Brisk,
funny, and incisive, Wouk’s romantic comedy of art versus love slyly updates
the story of the beloved star of his indelible novel Marjorie Morningstar,
while nimbly (at last!) retelling the story of Moses. This smart, playful
novel, along with Wouk’s remarkably sustained literary exuberance, will garner
major media attention and avid reader interest.”
Booklist (starred review)
"A lighthearted and delightful tour de force" (The Washington Times).
A romantic and suspenseful epistolary novel about a group of people trying to make a movie about Moses in the present day, The Lawgiver is a story that emerges from letters, memos, e-mails, journals, news articles, Skype transcripts, and text messages.
At the center of The Lawgiver is Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director who has rejected her rabbinical father’s strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multibillionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses, Margo does everything she can to land the job, including reunite with her estranged first love, an influential lawyer with whom she still has unfinished business. Two other key characters in the novel are Herman Wouk himself and his wife of more than sixty years, Betty Sarah, who, almost against their will, find themselves entangled in the movie.
As Wouk and his characters contend with Moses and marriage, the force of tradition, rebellion and reunion, The Lawgiver reflects the wisdom of a lifetime. Inspired by the great nineteenth-century novelists, one of America’s most beloved twentieth-century authors has now written a remarkable twenty-first-century work of fiction.
A romantic and suspenseful epistolary novel about a group of people trying to make a movie about Moses in the present day, The Lawgiver is a story that emerges from letters, memos, e-mails, journals, news articles, Skype transcripts, and text messages.
At the center of The Lawgiver is Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director who has rejected her rabbinical father’s strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multibillionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses, Margo does everything she can to land the job, including reunite with her estranged first love, an influential lawyer with whom she still has unfinished business. Two other key characters in the novel are Herman Wouk himself and his wife of more than sixty years, Betty Sarah, who, almost against their will, find themselves entangled in the movie.
As Wouk and his characters contend with Moses and marriage, the force of tradition, rebellion and reunion, The Lawgiver reflects the wisdom of a lifetime. Inspired by the great nineteenth-century novelists, one of America’s most beloved twentieth-century authors has now written a remarkable twenty-first-century work of fiction.
Release:
2012-11-13
2012-11-13
Runtime:
Runtime:
4h 56m
4h 56m
Format:
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.45 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781442357211
9781442357204
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Audio
Simon & Schuster Audio
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