The Book of Jonah

A major literary debut, an epic tale of love, failure, and unexpected faith set in New York, Amsterdam, and Las VegasThe modern day Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman s brilliantly conceived retelling of the book of Jonah is a young Manhattan lawyer named Jonah Jacobstein He s a lucky man healthy and handsome, with two beautiful women ready to spend the rest of their lives with him and an enormously successful career that gets promising by the minute He s celebrating a deal that will surely make him partner when a bizarre, unexpected biblical vision at a party changes everything Hard as he tries to forget what he saw, this disturbing sign is only the first of many Jonah will witness, and before long his life is unrecognizable Though this perhaps divine intervention will be responsible for than one irreversible loss in Jonah s life, it will also cross his path with that of Judith Bulbrook, an intense, breathtakingly intelligent woman who s no stranger to loss herself As this funny and bold novel moves to Amsterdam and then Las Vegas, Feldman examines the way we live now while asking an age old question How do you know if you re chosen Best Read [ The Book of Jonah ] Author [ Joshua Max Feldman ] – kino-fada.fr In this novel, Jonah is a Jewish corporate lawyer in New York City, who is just about to be promoted to partner All he has to do is defend a giant pharmaceutical company from patent infringement He guesses that the company stole the formula from a small startup company, but will probably win the case by out lawyering it Meanwhile, Jonah juggles his life between two girlfriends, a serious one and a not so serious one.Jonah sees a couple of visions, and struggles with their meaning One day h In this novel, Jonah is a Jewish corporate lawyer in New York City, who is just about to be promoted to partner All he has to do is defend a giant pharmaceutical company from patent infringement He guesses that the company stole the formula from a small startup company, but will probably win the case by out lawyering it Meanwhile, Jonah juggles his life between two girlfriends, a serious one and a not so serious one.Jonah sees a couple of visions, and struggles with their meaning One day he suddenly becomes honest , and ruins his life his career, his relationships, and cannot come to terms with what is happening Another line of the plot focuses on a young, brilliant woman named Judith She devotes her life to studying, and enters Yale Her life is devastated, though, on September 11, 20...A modern retelling of the Old Testament s book of Jonah, as well as a second text, that of the widow Judith who decapitated the Assyrian General Holofernes, are the thrust of Max Feldman s story of a young Jewish corporate lawyer climbing to the top of the ladder with an empty soul and a divided heart Jonah Jacobstein has two beautiful girlfriends devoted to him, and a law firm ready to hand him a meteoric rise to success by doing their dirty work Jacob is ready to choose one woman and leap in A modern retelling of...At first I was on board for this book, a modern retelling of a biblical tale that explores life and faith and meaning Then 9 11 happened No, in the story At that point everything came into stark relief and I became increasinglyfrustrated with the whole endeavor The entire book feels like a rough draft just a lot of ideas being thrown around with little regard to character or coherent story Not to mention, a couple of philosophical moments involving a stoner and a priest that I guess At first I was on board for this book, a modern retelling of a biblical tale that explores life and faith and meaning Then 9 11 happened No, in the story At that point everything came into stark relief and I became increasinglyfrustrated with the whole endeavor The entire book feels like a rough draft just a lot of ideas being thrown around with little regard to character or coherent story Not to mention, a couple of philosophical moments involving a stoner and a priest that I guess ...A first novel has a lot in common with meeting someone at a party introductory information context, clothes, blurbs tend towards the shallow, first impressions carry a lot of weight, but it takes a while to settle if this is someone you d ever want to speak to again or, in the case of a novel, something you d like to keep reading Joshua Max Feldman s The Book of Jonah comes with a lovely cover and blurbs sure to catch att...Sobrevivir en un mundo dominado por la avidez, la ambici n sin escr pulos y la flagrante ausencia de tica laboral es un proceso que podr a explicarse sin recurrir a ninguna analog a b blica Sin embargo, el joven escritor norteamericano Joshua Max Feldman demuestra entre las p ginas de El libro de Jonah, su debut como novelista, que dicho recurso resulta en ltima instancia tan interesante como apropiado Feldman no solo reinventa en su libro las bases de una historia que, por ser de sobra cono S...This one was stunningly difficult to review It began so auspiciously, so impressively, so lovely and then devolved with a second half so steadilyhow does one account for such disparity This was suppose to be a good, probably even great, book, a modern take on the famous story, a morality fable condemning or at least satirizing with intent to condemn the brutally soulless finance driven ways of the modern world Feldman s writing definitely had the strength to carry it too, superbly emotiona Thi...In 2001, Nick Hornby published a discomforting novel called How to Be Good It s about a man who upends his life by deciding that he will always do what s right Who could live with that Hornby asks Call it the curse of extravagant virtue Our orderly lives depend upon a certain degree of moral nearsightedness, our ability to moderate the demands of conscience, to ignore the fathomless needs of others much of the time Lose that and you become a kind of ethical freak, clad in self righteou In 2001, Nick Hornby published a discomforting novel called How to Be Good It s about a man who upends his life by deciding that he will always do what s right Who could live with t...The Book of Jonah seems like Christian bookstore fiction with cool, edgy sex and swearing.Which is a bummer because the concept of a modern day retelling of Jonah fascinated me However, after setting aside the clumsy, uneven way the book tried to echo the biblical story, I attempted to read the novel on its own terms young high flyer stopped short in his tracks by apparent brush with the supernatural Nope.The goal then became to satisfy my curiosity about how a parallel storyline would be w The Book of Jonah seems like Christian bookstore fiction with cool, edgy sex and swearing.Which is a bummer because the concept of a modern day retelling of Jonah fascinated me However, after setting aside the clumsy, uneven way the book tried to echo the biblical story, I atte...The plot is based on the story of Jonah from the Bible where God asks Jonah to go preach the gospel in Nineveh Jonah found this order unbearable because not only was Nineveh known for its wickedness, but it was also the capital of the Assyrian empire, one of Israel s fiercest enemies Instead, Jonah went down to the seaport of Joppa and booked passage on a ship to Tarshish, heading directly away from Nineveh and running away from God God sends a great storm th...When I read what this book was about, I was really interested in the concept A modern day tale spun around the story of Jonah in the Bible Ok, I ll bite At the onset, I was interested, but it fizzled rather quickly.For example I was curious how they would incorporate the big fish capacity disappointed.Jonah s arc as a person Not that much parallel to the story in question after he loses everything.And the question that kept me keep reading even when I didn t want to How was the story of When I read what this book was about, I was really interested in the concept A modern day tale spun around the story of Jonah in the Bible Ok, I ll bite At the onset, I was interested, but it fizzled rather quickly.For example I was curious how they would incorporate the big fish capacity disappointed.Jonah s arc as a person Not that much parallel to the story in question after he loses everything.And the question that kept me keep reading even when I didn t want to How was the story of Judith going to be entwined with Jonah s It could have been really fascinating It wasn t.I was bummed At the end of the book my thought was, What was the point of this There were a few moments of revelation for characters, but they were short lived or minor in my opinion The circumstances that happened to these people were much larger than any change I hoped to see in them while reading the book I found it to be stubbornly cold.Needl...

• English
• 27 July 2017
Joshua Max Feldman
• Hardcover
• 337 pages
• 0805097767
• Joshua Max Feldman
• The Book of Jonah