The Lawgiver: A Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (838 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1451699395 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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His later works include The Hope (1993), The Glory (1994), A Hole in Texas (2004) and The Lawgiver (2012). He lives in Palm Springs, California. Wouk’s laurels are the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Caine Mutiny; the cover of Time magazine for Marjorie Morningstar, the bestselling novel of that year; and the cultural phenomenon of The
Hollywood, Jews, & Hollywood Jews Susan Tunis Ninety-seven-year-old Herman Wouk (or a fictionalized version of him) is minding his own business. And his business, as you know, is writing novels. He's finally tackling the ambitious project he's wanted to write for decades, the story of Moses. It is a huge coincidence, therefore, when a hot Hollywood producer finagles a meeting insisting that he's the only man for the job of writing a Moses screenplay.Well, Mr. Wouk wants nothing to do with this. Meetings are refused until a rabbi intervenes. Ultimately, it is revealed that the epic film's funding--through unconventional sources-. A religious old man’s satirical fantasy Phred Bottom Line FirstThree stars does not mean I disliked Herman Wouk’s The Lawgiver, it means it was OK. Maybe a little better than, just not much. What I liked most was the use of E mails, hand written notes and aid memoirs to carry the story. This can be a gimmick but Wouk uses it to place the story up front and minimizes distractions like place descriptors and character backgrounds. The text is 234 pages in hard back, but the amount of blank space means it is almost twice as fast to read. Wouk casts himself as a leery disinterested background character in a fictionalized occas. An amazing and satisfying book Suncoast Herman Wouk (HW throughout the book) has written a clever, and amusing story with a strong Jewish American background. I have long been an admirer of his major "factional" works about WWII, the creation of Israel, the 6 Day War and the Yom Kippur War. I read this book on its release because I wanted to see what HW could offer at the age of 97 when so many other authors have reached their "sell by date" many years earlier.I was surprised by a short and satisfying novel that reeks of modernity in its epistolary format using only letters, tape recordings, e-mails, text messages, fax an
"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. 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 u
--Donna Seaman . From Booklist *Starred Review* Wouk has been trying to come up with a way to write a novel about Moses ever since he wrote The Caine Mutiny, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952. So it is up to a bold young director, Margo Solovei, to write the anti–Cecil B. At age 97, the venerated author of panoramic best-sellers finally takes on the challenge of portraying the biblical lawgiver. Margo has turned her back on her Orthodox upbringing and the mensch of a lawyer who stubbornly loves her, but she soon finds herself reconsidering her Jewish heritage and being single. Herman’s struggle with this confounding project is interrupted by “the red-hot moviemaker of the hour,” who pesters him to write a screenplay instead. Brisk, funny, and incisive, Wouk’s romantic comedy of art versus love slyly updates the story of the beloved star of his indelible novel Marjorie Morningstar (1955), while nimbly (