Past Continuous

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.

ISBN 0715632728   DEWEY 892.436 ISBN13 9780715632727 (What's this?)   DEWEY edition DC21 Publisher Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd   Pages 389 Imprint Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 230 Publication date 20 May 2004   Width (mm) 150 Library of Congress PJ5054.S2643 \Z3313   Academic level General

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