Jacob's Folly. by Rebecca Miller. 1. I, the being in question, having spent nearly three hundred years lost as a pomegranate pip in a lake of aspic, amnesiac, bodiless, and comatose, a nugget of spirit but nothing else, found myself quickening, gaining form, weight, and, finally, consciousness. InJacob's Folly, Miller's world - which is our own, transfigured by her clear gaze and by her sharp, surprising wit - comes spectacularly to life. Rebecca Miller is the author of the short-story collection Personal Velocity, her feature-film adaptation of which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, which she also adapted for the screen/5(90). · T ension between the longing for community and the desire for freedom is the dynamic that powers Jacob's Folly, the second novel by Rebecca Miller (pictured), exemplified in the lives of two Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
Book Review: 'Jacobs Folly' By Rebecca Miller | A Fiendish Fly Recalls Kafka The main character in Rebecca Miller's new novel is a pest with a past, and his gnat-like status offers him one great. In "Jacob's Folly," Rebecca Miller has landed on a narrative voice that's antique, droll, racy and occasionally cutting — imagine an 18th century French rake being played by David Niven. Jacob's Folly Rebecca Miller ISBN: / pages An ingenious novel of love, faith, and reincarnation, Jacob's Folly weaves three storylines to create a rollicking tale in which the past reverberates into the present.
Jacob’s Folly. Read an excerpt. Interview: Rebecca Miller on Writing Jacob’s Folly: Part 1 Part 2. Essay: On Writing Jacob’s Folly. Farrar, Straus and Giroux: Jacobs’s Folly Reading Group Gold. ·. bltadwin.ru · bltadwin.ru · bltadwin.ru · powells. Near the beginning of her third book, Jacob’s Folly, Rebecca Miller writes: “Reliable, true Leslie Senzatimore stood on his square of new-mown grass at the cusp of dawn, planted his feet far apart, leaned back, and aimed a glistening arc of piss straight over the fading moon. The heavenly body. T ension between the longing for community and the desire for freedom is the dynamic that powers Jacob's Folly, the second novel by Rebecca Miller (pictured), exemplified in the lives of two.
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