The Dybbuk in Love (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780809550777)

The color of his eyes had not changed, neither their depth nor their focus; his voice was as relaxed and nasal as the first time he spoke to her in the library. But he was looking through his eyes now, not with them: panes of stonewashed stained glass, and she said, dead-end recognition, Menachem. Something like ice and brandy sunfished up into her throat, sluice and burn past her heart; she put it from her, as she had weeks ago put away her surprise. Wondering for how long this time, she gave her greeting to this new face. I was wondering when you d turn up. Dybbuk: plural, dybbuks or dybbukim; from the Hebrew levadek, to cling or cleave. In Eastern Europe, at the end of the nineteenth century, a restless spirit that possesses a living person until exorcised. On the East Coast, at the beginning of the twenty-first, a dead man with a thousand faces and a single desire . . .

Author: Sonya Taaffe
ISBN-10: 0809550776
ISBN-13: 9780809550777
Publisher: Wildside Press
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2000
Pages: 48
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.12d