Past Continuous (English and Hebrew Edition) - Hardcover

Shabtai, Yaakov

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0827602391 ISBN 13: 9780827602397

Publisher: Jewish Pubn Society, 1985

Synopsis

A reissue of one of the classic works of twentieth-century Jewish fiction; Past Continuous depicts the crises in the lives of three Israeli men - Goldman, Israel, and Caesar - as they attempt to focus their lives and extract meaning from chaos. The reader is drawn into a mass of family tangles and social exhaustion -- wives and ex-wives, passing mistresses and crushing marriages, desperate intrigues and disappointments, the loss of children, friends, ideals. Past Continuous is a brilliant tour de force, a Joycean panorama of the lives of three men, their families, their lovers, and their friends in the quintessentially modern city of Tel Aviv. As much a novel about Tel Aviv - its landscape, its idiosyncratic atmosphere, and its history - as it is about the human condition.

About this title

About the Author:

Yaakov Shabtai (1934-1981) was an acclaimed writer of novels, plays, short stories, and a children's book -- as well as a translator, in 1999, the Tel Aviv Municipality named a street after him in a new district of the city.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Hebrew (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Jewish Pubn Society
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0827602391
• ISBN 13: 9780827602397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 389