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THE INSTRUCTIONS by Adam LEvin(includes limited-edition poster while supplies last!)
Manic, articulate, full of passion, courageous in its form, and very funny.
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FICTION
The Instructions(Bar Mitzvah Edition)limited-edition poster while supplies last
Adam Levin
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Mazel tov! Today is the day! One of the most beloved and celebrated novels we have ever published is thirteen years old and out now in a deluxe, two-volume edition. Raise a glass high for Adam Levins The Instructions, back in print, and available wherever books are sold.
First published in late 2010, The Instructions introduced the literary world to acclaimed author Adam Levin, and ten-year-old protagonist Gurion Maccabee. Combining a crackling voice reminiscent of Philip Roth with an encyclopedic mind that evokes David Foster Wallace, this novel presents a world driven equally by moral fervor and slapstick comedya novel that is muscular and exuberant, troubling and empathetic, monumental, breakneck, romantic, unforgettable, and heralded as one of the 21st centurys finest literary creations, (Preston Jones, Fort Worth Star-Telegram).
To quote from this editions new introduction by Gabriel Bump: This is a spiritual reading experience. Without intentionally sounding sacrilegious or superfluous, you can approach this book like a sacred religious text. Highlight sections. Note passages. I have eight pages of page numbers and questions. I read the King James Bible in a similar fashion. ... There is no writer I would rather read and reread and consider deeply than Adam Levin.
To celebrate this sprawling and ever-more-relevant opuss journey into adulthood, all orders placed today will include a stunning limited-edition poster, showing you the full breadth of Jeffrey Kams new cover design. We have perilously few of these prints, so order now before they are gone forever!Order this thirteenth-anniversary bar mitzvah edition today. Lchaim!
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Praise for The Instructions
Young Adam Levin wowed me with this whip-smart, aching, hilarious novel, starring his own kind of post-modern wise child (a la Seymour Glass) and revolutionary. The ghost of DF Wallace would relish comparisons to this brave new talent. This years best debut by a country mile.
Mary Karr
[A] riotous, gigantic and disturbing debut novel. Levin has filled his pages with modern Poloniuses, masters of digression, and with moments rich in fact and feeling.
Abigail Deutsch, San Francisco Chronicle
The Instructions is addictively quotable, violently funny, insanely intelligent and utterly compelling. Levins debut novel is unlike anything Ive ever read, in the best possible way.
Jill Owens, The Oregonian
One of the 21st centurys finest literary creations. From every angle, The Instructions fairly screams Great American Novel, a work of fiction not to be trifled with, an amalgam of a young mans life, thoughts and feelings, culled and stacked and printed to be consumed in miserly dribbles.
Preston Jones, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
A hysterical, heartfelt journey of self-discovery. A book that moves beyond completely transparent influences to reach its own distinct, new, great height.
Foster Kamer, Village Voice
Evocative of David Foster Wallace full of death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth.
Julia Holmes, Rolling Stone
This is a life-consuming novel, one that demands to be read feverishly. When it is over, other fiction feels insufficient, the newspaper seems irrelevant. If the ultimate message of modernism was unremitting pessimism The Instructions has given the literary genre its long deferred conclusion: Indeed, a dayor fourcan serve as a reminder that death looms large for anything living, but there is lot of life to be lived in the interim.
Michael H. Miller, New York Observer
After The Instructions challenges, charms and betrays you, it might just seduce your soul. The Instructions is disturbing and romantic and ultimately, heartbreaking, and its questions are not easily parsed, even by Gurions analytic mind. They are the nagging doubts of our own goodness and faith. But its worth sticking with this authors debut: This is a wunderkinds master class. An incredible creation of fiction.
Katie Moulton, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Levins mammoth, riotous, Talmudic, impossibly excessive yet brilliant, mesmerizing, warmhearted, and hilarious work of chutzpah takes place over four feverish days but encompasses the whole of Israels battle for existence and the Jewish quest for home and peace.
Donna Seaman, Booklist
The Instructions is in fact a vital work ofno getting around itAmerican Jewish literature because it imagines that the genre is indeed through and asks what can be written in its place.
Marissa Brostoff, Tablet
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