The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen Paperback Book

Description: The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics - An Account of A Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian-but not an historian of the Jews-is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies.The Netanyahus is constructed with a brilliant comic grace that moves from the sly to the exuberant ... The vision in this book is deeply original, making clear what a superb writer Joshua Cohen is. - Colm ToibinAbsorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel Ive read in what feels like forever. - New York Times Book Review Author Biography Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. His books include the novels Moving Kings, Book of Numbers, Witz, A Heaven of Others, and Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto; the short fiction collection Four New Messages, and the non-fiction collection Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. Called a major American writer by the New York Times, maybe Americas greatest living writer by the Washington Post, and an extraordinary prose stylist, surely one of the most prodigious at work in American fiction today by the New Yorker, Cohen was awarded Israels 2013 Matanel Prize for Jewish Writers, and in 2017 was named one of Grantas Best Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City. Review Joshua Cohen is such an accomplished writer its surprising he isnt a better known one.... Cohens new book - his sixth - continues the turn to allegorical realism [and] is among his best: a fastidious and very funny book that is one of the most purely pleasurable works of fiction Ive read in ages. - Jon Day, Financial TimesThe Netanyahus is Cohens sixth novel, his most conventional and his best to date. It is a tour de force: compact, laugh-out-loud funny, the best new novel Ive read this year [and] probably the funniest novel ever written about contending historiographies.... Cohens lesson, in this determinedly comic novel, is that history happens as farce and tragedy simultaneously. - John Phipps, The Times[Cohen] clearly is a genius ... The Netanyahus [is] a comic historical fantasia - a dizzying range of bookish learning and worldly knowhow is given rich, resourceful expression.... With its tight time frame, loopy narrator, portrait of Jewish-American life against a semi-rural backdrop, and moments of cruel academic satire, The Netanyahus reads like an attempt, as delightful as it sounds, to cross-breed Roths The Ghost Writer and Nabokovs Pale Fire.... This is a brisk, impudent, utterly immersive novel. - Leo Robson, GuardianThe Netanyahus, like Cohens previous novels, is driven by the momentum of its prose. It has a freewheeling, all-consuming style which frequently turns up unexpected delights.... This is a surprising novel, full of quirks and explosive moments - Christopher Shrimpton, SpectatorNo one writing in English today is more gifted than Joshua Cohen. Every page of The Netanyahus - an historical account of a man left out of history, a wickedly funny fable of the return of the repressed - crackles with Cohens high style and joyride intelligence. - Nicole Krauss, author of Forest Dark Long Description Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics - An Account of A Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers. Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian-but not an historian of the Jews-is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. The Netanyahus is constructed with a brilliant comic grace that moves from the sly to the exuberant ... The vision in this book is deeply original, making clear what a superb writer Joshua Cohen is. - Colm Toibin Absorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel Ive read in what feels like forever. - New York Times Book Review Review Text Joshua Cohen is such an accomplished writer its surprising he isnt a better known one.... Cohens new book - his sixth - continues the turn to allegorical realism [and] is among his best: a fastidious and very funny book that is one of the most purely pleasurable works of fiction Ive read in ages. - Jon Day, Financial Times The Netanyahus is Cohens sixth novel, his most conventional and his best to date. It is a tour de force: compact, laugh-out-loud funny, the best new novel Ive read this year [and] probably the funniest novel ever written about contending historiographies.... Cohens lesson, in this determinedly comic novel, is that history happens as farce and tragedy simultaneously. - John Phipps, The Times [Cohen] clearly is a genius ... The Netanyahus [is] a comic historical fantasia - a dizzying range of bookish learning and worldly knowhow is given rich, resourceful expression.... With its tight time frame, loopy narrator, portrait of Jewish-American life against a semi-rural backdrop, and moments of cruel academic satire, The Netanyahus reads like an attempt, as delightful as it sounds, to cross-breed Roths The Ghost Writer and Nabokovs Pale Fire.... This is a brisk, impudent, utterly immersive novel. - Leo Robson, Guardian The Netanyahus, like Cohens previous novels, is driven by the momentum of its prose. It has a freewheeling, all-consuming style which frequently turns up unexpected delights.... This is a surprising novel, full of quirks and explosive moments - Christopher Shrimpton, Spectator No one writing in English today is more gifted than Joshua Cohen. Every page of The Netanyahus - an historical account of a man left out of history, a wickedly funny fable of the return of the repressed - crackles with Cohens high style and joyride intelligence. - Nicole Krauss, author of Forest Dark Details ISBN1804270202 Author Joshua Cohen Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions Format Paperback Pages 248 Year 2022 ISBN-13 9781804270202 Publication Date 2022-06-01 Imprint Fitzcarraldo Editions Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2022-06-01 UK Release Date 2022-06-01 ISBN-10 1804270202 Alternative 9781913097615 DEWEY 813.6 Audience General NZ Release Date 2022-07-04 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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