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Rhyming Life and Death: A Novel by Amos Oz is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Rhyming Life and Death: A Novel about?
Fiction and reality merge inside the mind of a famous Israeli author in this “hilarious and profound . . . slyly philosophical novel” (Booklist). In this novel, Amos Oz offers a prismatic portrait of the storytelling impulse, with an extended glimpse inside the mind of a celebrated, unnamed Author. On a stiflingly hot night, the Author is in Tel Aviv to give a reading from his new book. As his attention wanders, he begins to invent lives for the strangers he sees around him: here, a self-styled cultural guru, Yakir Bar-Orian Zhitomirski; there, a love-starved professional reader, Rochele Reznik; to say nothing of Ricky the waitress, the real object of his desires. Reality and fiction blend in this ingenious, poignant work by the author of A Tale of Love and Darkness, a winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award. “A fable on themes of sex, death and writing pitched somewhere between the fictional universes of JM Coetzee and Milan Kundera.” — The Guardian “The witty and melancholy recorder of his country’s brilliant sufficiencies. . . . Now Oz takes an equally witty, equally melancholy look at his role as a writer.” —Los Angeles Times “From the prodigious Oz comes a delightfully e
Who reads Rhyming Life and Death: A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Amos Oz
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781299885608
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.37 / 5 (462 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14