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Lurianics
Lurianics
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Lurianics tells the story of a youngish man – one Isaac Luria (namesake of one of the world's great Kabbalists) – who seeks to create a "true work" which will give his life a meaning that is uniquely beyond label. Set on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the novel anatomizes this unlikely hero's ambivalence-racked relationships with a veritable cast of thousands, all of whom have one thing in common – a craving to derail his every attempt to get on with the job. They include: a smugly go-getting kid brother, a hyper-articulate mystery woman, and assorted bosses, co-workers, composers and filmmakers living and dead, ballet stars, murdered doormen, stuff-strutting sparrows, and honey locusts about to bloom. But chaos does not always reign supreme and in the end every encounter plays its part in forcing Luria to confront the ultimate question: Does he have the guts not just to erect his Valhalla (any fool can do that) but to erect it with the only building blocks worth a damn, i.e., the very things befouling the path?

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Release dateSep 22, 2018
ISBN9781628480757
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Michael Brodsky

Michael Brodsky is a New York writer, born and bred. The first of his many published works of fiction – including novels and collections of shorter prose – was Detour, for which he received the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Citation of PEN. He has also written plays, a number of which have been performed Off-Off-Broadway.

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