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Forest dark : a novel

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"Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized personality have, for sixty-eight years, been a force to be reckoned with, is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents' deaths, his divorce from his wife of more than thirty years, and his retirement from the New York law firm where he was a partner, he has felt an irresistible need to give away his possessions, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With the last of his wealth he travels to Israel, with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents. In Tel Aviv, he is sidetracked by a charismatic American rabbi planning a reunion for the descendants of King David who insists that Epstein is part of that storied dynastic line. He also meets the rabbi's beautiful daughter, who convinces Epstein to become involved in her own project--a film about the life of David that is being shot in the desert--with life-changing consequences. But Epstein isn't the only seeker embarking on a metaphysical journey that dissolves his sense of self, place, and history. Leaving her family in Brooklyn, a well-known young, well-known novelist arrives at the Tel Aviv Hilton, where she has stayed every year since her birth. Troubled by writer's block and a failing marriage, she hopes that the hotel can unlock a dimension of reality--and her own perception of life--that has been closed off to her. But when she meets a retired literature professor who proposes a project she can't turn down, she is drawn into a mystery that alters her life in ways she could never have imagined. Bursting with life and humor, Forest Dark is a profound, mesmerizing novel of transformation and self-realization--of looking beyond all that is visible toward the infinite." --Jacket.

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  • 35 of 36 copies available at Westchester Library System.

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Bedford Free Library FIC KRA (Text)
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Bedford Free Library PBK K (Text)
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Bedford Hills Free Library KRAUSS (Text)
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31003151409957
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Briarcliff Manor Public Library FICTION KRAUSS (Text)
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31036150843917
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Bronxville Public Library FICTION KRAUSS (Text)
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31004151618779
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Chappaqua Library FICTION KRAUSS (Text)
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Croton Free Library FICTION/KRAUSS (Text)
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31006151629532
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Dobbs Ferry Public Library KRAUSS (Text)
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31007151315072
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Greenburgh Public Library KRAUSS (Text)
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Harrison Public Library KRAUSS, N. (Text)
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31010300120690
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