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Eve's Appleby Rosen, Jonathan
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Book DescriptionNew York, NY, U.S.A.: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1998, 1998. Paperback. VG+. 309pp. Light soiling and wear.. Paperback. VG+. Book summaryA first novel by the cultural editor of the Jewish newspaper Forward. Joseph meets Ruth at college; he is a shy intellectual haunted by his young sister's suicide, she is an unstable artist given to wild mood swings. Ruth also suffers from eating disorders, and Joseph becomes obsessed with helping her. Through the ministrations of a psychiatrist whom he at first engages for Ruth, however, Joseph comes to see that Ruth's appeal has as much to do with his own traumas as with hers.Media Reviews"A sensitive and psychologically adroit novel about a love affair domestically weighed down by a problem especially rife just now in sophisticated urban society." -- Afred Kazin "An elegantly written debut offers an erudite analysis of eating disorders in a less-than-persuasive fictional structure." -- Kirkus "I was deeply moved by the extraordinary gentleness with which 'Eve's Apple' unfolds its two main characters. Rosen made me feel so intensely for these two achingly appealing young lovers that I had to fight a long-abandoned childhood habit of skipping to the last page to make sure that they had arrived there safely." -- Rebecca Goldstein "Jonathan Rosen's fine, insightful novel tenaciously burrows into our thoughts and compels us to care about its vividly drawn characters." -- Phillip Lopate "Mr. Rosen has taken on a delicate contemporary subject, which in his capable hands has provided yet another literary metaphor for the larger issues that haunt us all." -- Thane Rosenbaum, Wall Street Journal "Rosen's impressive debut is both a contemporary turn on Kafka's 'Hunger Artist' and a highly original addition to the distinguished line of Jewish-American family romances." -- New Yorker "This book is so remarkable in the way Jonathan Rosen describes longing, love, and the desire for a great emptiness to become filled up. Reverberating at the heart of it is the first sin: to eat or not to eat; and the consequences of that decision. And then again reverberating at the heart of it is the contemporary metaphor for that first sin of eating or not eating--anorexia." -- Jamaica Kincaid Publisher NotesRuth Simon is young, beautiful, aloof--and always hungry. After starving herself to the brink of death as a teenager, she has overcome her battle with an eating disorder, but she hasn’t filled the emotional void which provoked it. The simple act of eating remains a torment. Her lover, Joseph, is a young man adrift, guilt-ridden over his older sister’s suicide at the age of sixteen. Determined to save Ruth, he sets out to unravel the mystery of her obsession with food and come to terms with his own lingering scars. Eve’s Apple is a beautiful love story at the heart of which lies a provocative probe into varieties of hunger--for intimacy, knowledge, and love. A snapshot of the contemporary American family and a romance in the tradition of Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus. Eve’s Apple has received spectacular praise from major newspapers and magazines around the country. A snapshot of the contemporary American family and a romance in the tradition of Philip Roth's "Goodbye, Columbus, Eve's Apple" offers "a quietly powerful exploration of a theme as old as the story of Adam and Eve" ("The New York Times"). Other Recommended Books
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