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Eve's Apple
by Jonathan Rosen
ISBN: 0452279984
ISBN-13: 9780452279988
Format: Paperback
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Summary
A 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.
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"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
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published date: 1998
Size: 5.5 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.6 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Ruth 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.
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Plume Books, 1998 Trade paperback. Good. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade.. ( more information) Offered by Red Rover Do Over (United States)
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E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Penguin USA, 1998 Softcover. Sound & nice copy, moderate rubbing/edgewear to wraps. Mild creasing. Remaindered. . Trade Paperback. Good/n/a. ( more information) Offered by The Book Women (United States)
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New York, NY: Plume, 1998 pages yellowed. binding tight. edge wear with denting. corners dented, and starting to split. top and bottom binding edges dented. . 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. ( more information) Offered by after-words bookstore (United States)
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E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Penguin USA, 1998 USED - Standard. Book has only minor reading wear; binding is square and tight; text is clean and unmarked. BOOKSMART offers free domestic shipping (media mail) on orders of three or more books. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Booksmart (United States)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1998, 1998. Paperback. VG+. 309pp. Light soiling and wear.. Paperback. VG+. ( more information) Offered by Priceless Books (United States)
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Plume. PAPERBACK. 0452279984 New with very slight shelf wear from time on shelf (like you'd see at a major chain). We ship daily, provide personalized customer service and want you to have a great experience purchasing from us. Thank you for your consideration. . New. ( more information) Offered by BennettBooksLtd (United States)
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