Books : Edges: O Israel, O Palestine
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by: Leora Skolkin-Smith
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781930180147
ISBN: 1930180144
Label: Glad Day
Manufacturer: Glad Day
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: May 30, 2005
Publisher: Glad Day
Sales Rank: 545839
Studio: Glad Day
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Product Description:
After selling out of two successive print runs, Leora Skolkin-Smith's intoxicating novel about a young girl's personal and political discovery in 1960's Israel and Palestine is being re-released in a new edition by Glad Day Books. This new incarnation will include the author's afterword and dedication to her mentor Publisher and Editor of Glad Day Books with Robert Nichols, Grace Paley.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
'Edges' is set in a pre-1967 Israel, during the Cold War. Characters are drawn from Israel's long-forgotten past, members of the 1940's Haganah and Jewish underground who find themselves displaced amidst the chaotic and complex tensions of an Israel just beginning to modernize and expand.
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Rating:  - Original work
This is a very poetic and complex book, and not meant for a quick read, I think. And for me what was strong was the mother and daughter relationship and the relationship the geography had to do with the girl's budding sexuality, her identity, and inner landscape. But it not for everybody. Mainly because it doesn't strive to provide more of the standard political answers we are so used to when anyone writes about the Middle East. Instead it's about people, what they are as individuals and their desperate ... Read More
Rating: - From "Dovegrey Reader Scribbles"
Edges, O Israel O Palestine by Leora Skolkin-Smith, published by Glad Day Books which would seem to be an enterprise backed by the late Grace Paley,
'our particular purpose is to bridge the gap between imaginative literature and political articles and criticism which have been fixed under the labels of "Fiction" and "Non-Fiction." But the split has diminished literature and its usefulness to society. With these constraints writers find themselves engaged in a form of self-censorship that has ... Read More
Rating:  - I really enjoyed it...lyrical descriptions of the land
I really enjoyed the book. It's got a lot of tension and I felt I kept wanting to read, wanting to find out what was going to happen. The characters are totally alive and your descriptions of the land are so lyrical! It makes me want to ask--did this really happen to the author herself? So real! And at the same time surreal, suffused with the limited perceptions of a young girl. It made me think a bit of Ghost Dance, by Carole Maso. It is also about an odd relationship between a mother and daughter, ... Read More
Rating: - "...the place of her sexual awakening...."
"Edges" takes the reader to an Israel before high walls formed a border, when, instead, metal wires hung "like hosiery lines" across the land. Liana Barish is fourteen years old when the suicide of her American father forces her mother, mourning, in despair back to her family--to Jerusalem where she grew up. For Liana it is the place where the powerful interdependence of mother and daughter--physical and spiritual--ends. It is the place of her sexual awakening.
This can happen when Liana escapes across ... Read More
Rating: - Intimiate and Compelling portrait
"This is an intimate and compelling portrait of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary time and place. This first publication from Glad Day Books, Grace Paley's new imprint, is a promising debut."
Quoted from Robert Gray (REAL NAME), author of Publisher's Marketplace and Fresh Eyes
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