CD Audiobook
The lawgiver [sound recording] / Herman Wouk.
"A romantic and suspenseful epistolary novel about a group of people trying to make a movie about Moses in the present day"--Container.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442357204 :
- Physical Description: 4 sound discs (ca. 5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged ed.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact discs. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Peter Riegert & Zosia Mamet. |
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| Genre: | Epistolary fiction. |
- Baker & Taylor
A tale told through correspondence, articles, and text messages traces the efforts of a group of movie makers, including a brilliant young writer-director who has rejected her rabbinical father's strict upbringing, to create a movie about the life of Moses. - Baker & Taylor
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such classics asWar and Remembrance presents a tale told through correspondences, articles and text messages that trace the efforts of a group of movie makers, including a brilliant young writer-director who has rejected her rabbinical father's strict upbringing, to create a movie about the life of Moses. Simultaneous. Book available. - Simon and Schuster
"A lighthearted and delightful tour de force" (The Washington Times).
A romantic and suspenseful epistolary novel about a group of people trying to make a movie about Moses in the present day, The Lawgiver is a story that emerges from letters, memos, e-mails, journals, news articles, Skype transcripts, and text messages.
At the center of The Lawgiver is Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director who has rejected her rabbinical father&;s strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multibillionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses, Margo does everything she can to land the job, including reunite with her estranged first love, an influential lawyer with whom she still has unfinished business. Two other key characters in the novel are Herman Wouk himself and his wife of more than sixty years, Betty Sarah, who, almost against their will, find themselves entangled in the movie.
As Wouk and his characters contend with Moses and marriage, the force of tradition, rebellion and reunion, The Lawgiver reflects the wisdom of a lifetime. Inspired by the great nineteenth-century novelists, one of America&;s most beloved twentieth-century authors has now written a remarkable twenty-first-century work of fiction.
