Rhyming Life and Death

Amos Oz

RRP: £12.99

Publisher: CHATTO & WINDUS

Publication Date : 19/02/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A bored writer goes to a reading and has a brief sexual skirmish with a female reader. Or does he? This small gem of a novel by Amos Oz is about writing, reading, growing old and the elusive chimera of literary posterity and has the appeal of Philip Roth's "Everyman" and "Exit Ghost". Sure to be widely reviewed.

Publisher's description:

The Author (unnamed), a literary celebrity in his forties, is in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night to give a reading. Bored, he looks for distraction - and finds copy. On the way he stops at a cafe where he 'bumps into' some of his own characters. In his head he conjures up the life stories of the people he meets.

ISBN: 9780701182281