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Daniel’s 2024 Year in Books
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Daniel Victor
Goodreads Author
Born
in New Bedford, MA, The United States
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Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nathan Englander, Bernard Malamud
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November 2017
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The Evil Inclination
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Daniel Victor
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Morningside Heights is an elegiac account of the deterioration of a great man--a world renowned Shakespearean academic--who is afflicted with early-onset Alzheimers. The novel traces his decline and the impact it has on his devoted wife and complicat
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| Ezra Teitelbaum’s novel “In the Shoulder of Your Sail” is a compelling story of self-discovery and adventure. The twenty-something protagonist, Efram Teller, embarks on a Peace Corps assignment in Togo immediately after completing shiva for his immig ...more | |
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Exciting news: The audiobook of “The Evil Inclination” is now available on Audible. The audiobook vividly captures the Brooklyn idiom of the protagoni
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| How unusual to find a book that not only tells an engrossing life story but that also contains advice and counsel by the author on how to attain personal success and live a more rewarding life. Bylines and Blessings—Overcoming Obstacles, Striving for ...more | |
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Daniel Victor
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2024/5 Discussion site for Adam Mansbach's The Golem of Brooklyn--POLL WINNER
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These are all thought provoking comments! With respect to the point that the novel is first and foremost a comic novel, I think that a novel can be la
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I am excited to announce that The Evil Inclination has been awarded a Silver Reviewers Choice Award for Religious-themed Fiction. This is the second l
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Thanks for this insightful review, Jan!
With respect to your thoughts about whether the book is a "tragicomedy," I like to think of it as a "laugh-out ...more " |
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Daniel Victor
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I'm happy to chat with you, David. Feel free to give a call on my mobile (917) 434-9517. If I don't pick up then leave a voice mail and I'll get back to you.
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Daniel Victor
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Daniel Victor
made a comment in the group
Jewish Book Club
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2023/11 Discussion of James McBride's The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store--Mod's Choice
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I believe the Fiddler in Fiddler on the Roof is metaphor for the precariousness of Jewish life in Exile. As Tevye says: "But here, in our little villa
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| “Muppets in Moscow” by Natasha Lance Rogoff is an extraordinary non-fiction account of the collective effort by Sesame Workshop to produce a Russian version of Sesame Street in the wild, chaotic era after the fall of the Soviet Union. The book ingeni ...more | |
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