Joshua Max Feldman. (2014). The Book of Jonah: A Novel. Henry Holt and Co.

Joshua Max Feldman. 2014. The Book of Jonah: A Novel. Henry Holt and Co.

Joshua Max Feldman, The Book of Jonah: A Novel. Henry Holt and Co, 2014.

Joshua Max Feldman. The Book of Jonah: A Novel. Henry Holt and Co, 2014.

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   • bioText: Joshua Max Feldman is a writer of fiction and plays. Born and raised in Amherst, Massachusetts, he graduated from Columbia University and currently lives in Brooklyn. The Book of Jonah is his first novel.
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A major literary debut, an epic tale of love, failure, and unexpected faith set in New York, Amsterdam, and Las Vegas
The modern-day Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman's brilliantly conceived retelling of the Book of Jonah is a young Manhattan lawyer named Jonah Jacobstein. He's a lucky man: healthy and handsome, with two beautiful women ready to spend the rest of their lives with him and an enormously successful career that gets more promising by the minute. He's celebrating a deal that will surely make him partner when a bizarre, unexpected biblical vision at a party changes everything. Hard as he tries to forget what he saw, this disturbing sign is only the first of many Jonah will witness, and before long his life is unrecognizable. Though this perhaps divine intervention will be responsible for more than one irreversible loss in Jonah's life, it will also cross his path with that of Judith Bulbrook, an intense, breathtakingly intelligent woman who's no stranger to loss herself. As this funny and bold novel moves to Amsterdam and then Las Vegas, Feldman examines the way we live now while asking an age-old question: How do you know if you're chosen?

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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
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     "The storytelling, infused with energy throughout, gathers momentum and culminates in an enigmatic, unexpected ending. . . The risk-taking and sheer weirdness of The Book of Jonah is worth applauding."

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   • source: The Washington Post
   • content: "A beguiling first novel. . . Feldman gives ample proof that he can write about well-dressed New Yorkers with the same prickly wit that Claire Messud offered in The Emperor's Children . . . His satire lacks that astringent bitterness that can make some witty novels seem heartless. And his willingness to pose the big questions to the whirlwind makes for unusually thoughtful reading."
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   • source: Cleveland Plain Dealer
   • content: "Brave and necessary . . . one of the few novels I've read recently that is a genuine page-turner."
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   • source: Shelf Awareness
   • content: "Feldman captures the contemporary New York zeitgeist but also effectively tackles questions of biblical proportions: How can we live in a world we can't comprehend? How can we serve a God whose will we can't understand?"
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   • source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune
   • content: "The Book of Jonah is a debut that heralds great promise. With shrewd allusion, finely wrought characters and a pulsing, page-turning narrative, Feldman works new and inventive wonders from an ancient template."
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     December 2, 2013
     Two lost souls seek meaning in this enticing debut novel about faith and the “inescapability of being (oneself).” Jonah Jacobstein, a ladder-climbing associate at a large Manhattan law firm, finds himself in the throes of a spiritual malaise that recalls the story of his Biblical namesake. Jonah is plagued by alarming visions that include the city sinking underwater and everyone around him suddenly appearing naked. He breaks things off with his erstwhile girl-on-the-side, Zoey, comes clean about his infidelity to his girlfriend, Sylvia, and is fired from his job for a half-hearted whistleblowing attempt. Jonah decamps to Amsterdam and meets Judith, a fellow ambivalent Jew with a tragic past. Convinced that their encounter contains the final piece in his spiritual puzzle, Jonah seeks from her both absolution and closure. When it comes down to it, Jonah’s journey, which includes two break-ups, a firing, relocation, and a new love interest, has all the makings for a mediocre romantic comedy. But even the most banal events can lead to existential and religious revelations, which Feldman shows here, for instance, when a character observes that “the most potent experiences in life end up making what tell you less believable, not more.” Agent: Susan Golomb, Susan Golomb Literary Agency.

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     December 1, 2013
     A modern retelling of the story from the Hebrew Bible, with a corporate lawyer standing in for Jonah and Amsterdam for the belly of the whale. In the beginning, Jonah Daniel Jacobstein seems to be on top of the world. He's got two girlfriends, is making lots of money and is about to be made a partner at his law firm. But coming in on the subway one day, he has an encounter with a Hasidic Jew who questions him about the biblical Jonah, and this conversation profoundly unsettles Jacobstein, a nonobservant Jew. Still, life is good--or seems to be--but then things quickly begin to unravel. He decides to break off one romance (with Zoey) and commit to another (with Sylvia), but then both of these relationships end up falling apart. His law firm assigns him a prestigious and lucrative client, but he sends a compromising email and gets fired. His life, in other words, is scarcely what it seems and in fact is subject to almost Job-ian reversals. Parallel to Jonah's story is that of Judith, a precocious child and then a promising academic art historian who's lost both her parents in the 9/11 attacks. After his life falls apart, Jonah drifts to Amsterdam, where he lives a calm but somewhat drug-addled life, and eventually, his path crosses with that of Judith's (now Judy), who's also adrift. Feldman is clever in his use of the Jonah story, and his novel is of the same strange and enigmatic quality as the original.

     COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     Feldman's intriguing first novel, a modern retelling of the Bible's Book of Jonah, examines the dilemma of faith amid life's failures and loss. Blessed with ambition and good looks, Jonah Jacobstein is a 32-year-old New York City corporate lawyer who has recently been placed on a high-profile case. While out celebrating that evening, he experiences a vision of the city being destroyed, a catastrophic vision right out of the Bible. As Jonah struggles to comprehend this inexplicable vision, the first of several, and the questions it brings, his life spirals out of control. He calls it quits with an on-again, off-again lover, confesses his infidelity to his girlfriend, destroys a family member's relationship, and sends an incriminating email that leads to his termination at work. Alone and unemployed, Jonah journeys abroad, living an aimless life with no recognizable ties to his past. While wandering, he crosses paths with Judith, a hardened young woman whose own tale of loss and struggle for meaning parallels Jonah's. Feldman's expansive tale offers an invigorating, timeless exploration of existential crises within a contemporary world.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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     September 1, 2013
     

     Lots of in-house enthusiasm for this literary debut, a modern retelling of the biblical story of Jonah featuring Manhattan lawyer Jonah Jacobstein. Jonah is a wildly successful hunk with two women at his beck and call when he has a biblical vision that changes his life; thereafter, he suffers some terrible losses but also meets a woman whose quiet intensity changes his life.

     Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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