Isaac: A Modern Fable

A lively, inventive tale of Isaac that follows him beyond Genesis into the 21st century.

After being spared from Abraham’s blade, he’s been granted eternal youth and wanders the earth as a soldier of fortune. Turning up at a coffee shop in Los Angeles, he falls in love with Ruth Canby, a brilliant, breezy academic with a troubled past.

Isaac suspects he was forgotten, “a crumb dropped unnoticed in a kitchen crevice.” Perhaps whatever saved him is long gone, leaving him “a puppet without a puppet master, like one of those Japanese soldiers stranded on an island after World War II.”

Isaac and Ruth must ultimately confront a sinister, enigmatic phantom that’s stalked him for forty centuries. The story makes stops that include the Spanish Inquisition, a luxury box at the Super Bowl, and the infamous cells of the Tombs of New York City. Along the way it takes stock of time and chance, good and evil, faith, forgiveness, God, Satan, and the power of everlasting love.

Author: Ivan G. Goldman

Binding: Hardcover

EAN: 9781579622299

Condition: New

Manufacturer: The Permanent Press

Number of items: 1

Number of pages: 222

Product group: Book

Studio: The Permanent Press

Publication Date: 2012-04-18

Publisher: The Permanent Press

Pages: 222

ISBN: 1579622291

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