Eleazar, Exodus to the West

by Michel Tournier

Michel Tournier's "Eleazar, Exodus to the West" is a modern successor to two seemingly disparate myths-the biblical adventure of the Exodus and the nineteenth-century myth of the American frontier. The setting is 1845. Eleazar, a Protestant minister, leaves his native Ireland with his wife and two children to emigrate to America. Like the Old Testament Moses, with whom Eleazar comes to identify through the course of the novel, Eleazar has committed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080329445X
• ISBN13: 9780803294455
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 89 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.0"