The Book Of Intimate Grammar by David Grossman - ISBN: 9780099552321
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Eleven years old and on the cusp of puberty, Aron Kleinfeld is precocious, imaginative - the leader of his gang of friends.

The Book Of Intimate Grammar

  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    1 November 2010

Summary

A stunning novel - a searing psychological portrait of a child’s descent into madnessEleven years old and on the cusp of puberty, Aron Kleinfeld is precocious, imaginative - the leader of his gang of friends. But his bar mitzvah is looming, his friends are all hitting puberty and Aron, terrified and revolted by what he sees around him, enters a state of arrested development. He stops growing, retreats from the world, and is imprisoned in the body of a child for three long years. While Israel …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099552321
ISBN-10:0099552329
Author:David Grossman, Betsy Rosenberg
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:1 November 2010
Weight:245g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 21mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

It’s a rare achievement for the magic of childhood to be treated so weightily

It’s a rare achievement for the magic of childhood to be treated so weightily * Mail on Sunday *When the Israeli writer David Grossman’s See Under: Love was published…he was compared legitimately to Kafka, Grass, Márquez and Joyce….David Grossman’s own intimate grammar will speak to anyone who was ever twelve * The Boston Globe *It is an achievement that is full of charm and courage * Andrew Motion *Like [Virginia] Woolf, Grossman is uncanny at reproducing an experience from the inside out…the writing reminds you of the great, solemn mystery of literature, what the poet Czeslaw Milosz calls ‘the human possibility of being someone else * Chicago Tribune *Mr. Grossman’s balance between the poetic and the profane is perfect….[The Book of Intimate Grammar] is See Under: Love’s stylistic twin: the beauty and intelligence of the writing are dazzling….It can be read at once, as a tale of magic realism, a parable about the damage left in the wake of the Holocaust, a psychological portrait of a child’s descent into madness, and, finally, as a comical but searing indictment of the Jewish family * New York Times Book Review *

About The Author

David Grossman

David Grossman is the bestselling author of numerous works, which have been translated into thirty-six languages. His novel, A Horse Walks into a Bar, was awarded the International Man Booker Prize 2017. Grossman is also the recipient of the French Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the 2010 Frankfurt Peace Prize.

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