The Retrospective
by Yehoshua, A. B
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0547496966
- ISBN 13
- 9780547496962
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Synopsis
Winner, Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger An aging Israeli film director has been invited to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela for a retrospective of his work. When Yair Moses and Ruth, his leading actress and longtime muse, settle into their hotel room, a painting over their bed triggers a distant memory in Moses from one of his early films: a scene that caused a rift with his brilliant but difficult screenwriter—who, as it happens, was once Ruth’s lover. Upon their return to Israel, Moses decides to travel to the south to look for his elusive former partner and propose a new collaboration. But the screenwriter demands a price for it that will have strange and lasting consequences. A searching and original novel by one of the world’s most esteemed writers, The Retrospective is a meditation on mortality and intimacy, on the limits of memory and the struggle of artistic creation.
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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D63908
- Title
- The Retrospective
- Author
- Yehoshua, A. B
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0547496966
- ISBN 13
- 9780547496962
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2013-03-05
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