Past Perfect

by Yaakov Shabtai

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670813087
• ISBN13: 9780670813087
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not just for Jews anymore!

Instead of losing steam and falling appart at the end, or ending with some episodic-not-narrative piece, Past Perfect ends with a phantasmagorical mind bender that carries the sleeping reader upstairs and puts them to bed. This stream-of-consciousness hay ride has nothing much to do with being Jewish or Israeli and nothing at all to do with politics. It has everything to do with growing older and picking one's way over the rocky sections of middle age. Proust's madelines are here (in the blue cookie jar) and the trip to Amsterdam perfectly captures all of our frantic attempts to force ourselves to have fun. Arrrgh! I'm not describing this well. I can't remember who I loaned it to, but I want it back. Like "Under the Volcano" by Malcom Lowrey, it kind of wandered into my life one day and changed it (and me).