The Book Of Telling: A Memoir

by MUIR, SHARONA

First Edition

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Book desription: New York, New York, U.S.A.: Schocken Books, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. After her father died, Sharona Muir learned by chance that he had invented Israels first rocket.This book tells the amazing story of how Muir unravels the truth about her father's many lives. Muir travels to Israel to interview her father's former colleagues - a practically unknown group of foreign refugees who had been summoned by David Ben-Gurion to create weapons for a new nation. Sharing memories of her father, they heldped her to understand him in the context of their astonishing past. She weaves together the secret scientists' stories with the story of Muir's father's life and her quest to rediscover him. She had known him as an inventor of medical instruments - his cardiac catheter is still saving lives today - and as a writer of consciousness and the cosmos, but uncovered much more. This is the story of human creativity in the face of war and hearbreak, of extremes both historical and personal. And it stresses how we invent not only ideas and machines, but also our very selves. 275 pages including an afterword and notes. The binding is textured natural paper with gold lettering. 8 drawings and photographs are included. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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