
The Instructions
Adam Levin(Author)
Canongate Books (Publisher)
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-0-85786-137-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular talker. Expelled from three Jewish day-schools for acts of violence and messianic tendencies, Gurion ends up in the Cage, a special lockdown program for the most hopeless cases at Aptakisic Junior High. But from the moment he meets the beautiful Eliza June Watermark, to the terrifying Events of November 17, Gurion's search for truth and righteousness becomes a violent, unstoppable revolution. With the troubling energy of DBC Pierre and the encyclopedic mind of David Foster Wallace, Adam Levin describes a world driven equally by moral fervor and slapstick comedy-a novel that is muscular and exuberant, troubling and empathetic, monumental, breakneck, romantic and unforgettable.
Reviews / Votes
'Manic, articulate, full of passions, courageous in its form and very funny.' - George Saunders 'Adam Levin's book is the real thing, I think. It appeals to the young readers who like formal invention and ambition... But there's also real substance there.' - Dave Eggers 'A hysterical, heartfelt journey of self-discovery ... A book that moves beyond completely transparent influences to reach its own distinct, new, great height.' - Village Voice 'Evocative of David Foster Wallace ... full of death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth.' - Rolling StoneMore details
Edition
Export ed
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-0-85786-137-5 (9780857861375)
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Person
Adam Levin's stories have appeared in Tin House, McSweeney's, and Esquire. Winner of the 2003 Tin House/Summer Literary Seminars Fiction Contest and the 2004 Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Prize, Levin holds an MA in Clinical Social Work from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. His collection of short stories, Hot Pink, will be published by McSweeney's in 2011. He lives in Chicago, where he teaches writing at Columbia College and The School of the Art Institute. He also has a parrot.