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    The Days of Awe
    The Days of Awe
    The Days of Awe
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    The Days of Awe

    By Hugh Nissenson

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    Washington Post Best Books of 2005.
    Philadelphia Inquirer Top 10 Fiction Pick, Fall 2005

    At age 67, Artie Rubin finds his world shaken to its foundation by events he cannot control. His tale his both universal and unique; it is the story of the end of things and their beginnings, of friends and family, of connections lost and of the endurance of love. The Days of Awe is a breathtaking call to living.

    "[Nissenson] more than holds his own in the arena of gritty, all-too-present-day realism, brilliantly conveying his characters' anxiety and suffering, their conflicting ideas,emotions and beliefs, and the love for one another that makes them so vulnerable but also lends enduring value to their menaced lives."—Wall Street Journal

    "Solid character writing and attention to the details of daily life make the September 11 material well motivated; as characters continue to worry, kibitz, philosophize and complain, one feels that they have a real sense of the stakes."—Publishers Weekly

    "A moving, thought-provoking exploration of coming to grips with mortality."—Booklist

    "I just finished The Days of Awe. I am too moved to move. (Even this pen.) An amazing novel. It is as if we are eavesdropping on life." —Cynthia Ozick

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateOct 1, 2007
    ISBN9781402233289
    The Days of Awe
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    Hugh Nissenson

    Hugh Nissenson is the author of eight books, including the recent illustrated novel The Song of the Earth, which received a number of superb reviews in the New Yorker, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times among others. His previous novel The Tree of Life was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pen-Faulkner Award in 1985. He lives in New York City.

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      In the Jewish tradition, the Days of Awe refers to the ten-day period between Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when Jews believe their actions of the preceding year are judged and their fate for the coming year sealed. In this brief, but compelling, novel, Hugh Nissenson appropriates the term to describe the turmoil in the lives of a group of educated, affluent New Yorkers in the period between August and November 2001, spanning the period surrounding the terrorist attack of 9/11. In radically different ways, each of the novel’s characters gropes for answers to some of life’s ultimate questions. Nissenson offers no easy solutions, reminding us that meaning more often lies in the journey than in reaching the destination.

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