Holy Embrace by Brelich, Mario

Holy Embrace (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781568970028)

Vendor: Mario Brelich
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Holy Embrace by Brelich, Mario

Holy Embrace

$24.95
Holy Embrace by Brelich, Mario

Holy Embrace

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
Description
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This imaginative reworking of the story of Abraham and Sarah combines myth, rabbinic lore, storytelling, and psychological insight to create new and revealing interpretations of ancient texts.

In The Holy Embrace, Abraham repudiates the idols worshipped by his ancestors and accepts God when the Lord selects him as the ambivalent patriarch of His chosen people. But the greatest impediment to God's designs is Abraham's infatuation with his wife, "the most beautiful woman in the world," who is also narcissistic and frigid. How the miracle of their holy embrace is finally accomplished, and how their son Isaac is conceived in accordance with God's command, forms the substance of this profound and witty book.


Author: Mario Brelich
ISBN-10: 1568970021
ISBN-13: 9781568970028
Publisher: Marlboro Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1995
Pages: 229
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.83h x 5.84w x 0.92d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/15/1994 pg. 577
Publishers Weekly 10/10/1994 pg. 63
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/1994 pg. 1218
By Mario Brelich
By Mario Brelich
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Mario Brelich (1910-82) gained fame in the Italian literary world with the publication of The Holy Embrace in 1972. Also available from The Marlboro Press / Northwestern are Navigator of the Flood, about Noah and The Work of Betrayal--the story of Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Christ as "investigated" by Poe's great detective, Dupin.
John Shepley has translated the works of Brelich, Camon, and Pasolini, among others.

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