· From ancient religion to the scientific frontier, Dara Horn pits our efforts to make life last against the deeper challenge of making life worth living. Related collections and offers. Product Details. About the www.doorway.ru: Norton, W. W. Company, Inc. Only one person shares her immortality: an illicit lover who pursues her through the ages. But when her children develop technologies that could change her fate, Rachel must find a way out. From ancient religion to the scientific frontier, Dara Horn pits our efforts to make life last against the deeper challenge of making life worth living. · Eternal Life. Dara Horn. W.W. Norton Company. , pp, $ My mother-in-law seemed to have inexhaustible energy, raising eight children while she was a partner in her husband’s Chicago bookstore, but she died tragically before her 50th birthday. One Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.
" The chilling pathos of Dara Horn's Eternal Life is bound to turn every mortal reader into a philosopher of cosmic joy." — Cynthia Ozick, author of Foreign Bodies " A mature, wry, uniquely female take on the problem of immortality.". eternal life by Dara Horn ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 3, A fresh exploration of memory and the future from the award-winning author of A Guide for the Perplexed (, etc.). Read "Eternal Life: A Novel" by Dara Horn available from Rakuten Kobo. **A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of , Booklist Editors' Choice Book (January ), and Chicago Public Li.
ETERNAL LIFE. by Dara Horn ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 3, A fresh exploration of memory and the future from the award-winning author of A Guide for the Perplexed (, etc.). The idea that life derives its meaning from death is hardly new, but Horn manages to turn this commonplace notion into a powerful—and occasionally playful—exploration of what it is to be mortal. Only one person shares her immortality: an illicit lover who pursues her through the ages. But when her children develop technologies that could change her fate, Rachel must find a way out. From ancient religion to the scientific frontier, Dara Horn pits our efforts to make life last against the deeper challenge of making life worth living. Mark O. (Wenatchee, WA) A contender for your short shelf. If you are a collector of wonderful sentences you might want to read Eternal Life, by Dara Horn, with a highlighter or notebook in hand. Much of the book is an immersion -- sights, sounds, smells, textures -- in first-century Jewish communities.
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