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Simon & Schuster
October 2012
On Sale: October 9, 2012
256 pages
ISBN: 1451699387
EAN: 9781451699388
Kindle: B007US9TQQ
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Fiction Family Life | Historical
For more than fifty years, legendary author Herman Wouk has
dreamed of writing a novel about the life of Moses. Finally,
at age ninety-seven, he has found an ingeniously witty way
to tell the tale in The Lawgiver, a romantic and
suspenseful epistolary novel about a group of people trying
to make a movie about Moses in the present day. The story
emerges from letters, memos, e-mails, journals, news
articles, recorded talk, Skype transcripts, and text
messages. At the center of The Lawgiver is Margo
Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director who has rejected
her rabbinical father’s strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a
career in the arts. When an Australian multibillionaire
promises to finance a movie about Moses if the script meets
certain standards, Margo does everything she can to land the
job, including a reunion with her estranged first love, an
influential lawyer with whom she still has unfinished
business. Two other key characters in the novel are
Herman Wouk himself and his wife of more than sixty years,
Betty Sarah, who, almost against their will, find themselves
entangled in the Moses movie when the Australian billionaire
insists on Wouk’s stamp of approval. As Wouk and his
characters contend with Moses and marriage, and the force of
tradition, rebellion, and reunion, The Lawgiver
reflects the wisdom of a lifetime. Inspired by the great
nineteenth-century novelists, one of America’s most beloved
twentieth-century authors has now written a remarkable
twenty-first-century work of fiction.
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