Someone to Run with - by David Grossman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>David Grossman's <i>Someone to Run With</i> tells the story of a lost dog, and the discovery of first love on the streets of Jerusalem, portrayed here with a gritty realism that is as fresh as it is compelling.</b> <p/>When awkward and painfully shy sixteen-year-old Assaf is asked to find the owner of a stray yellow lab, he begins a quest that will bring him into contact with street kids and criminals, and a talented young singer, Tamar, engaged on her own mission: to rescue a teenage drug addict. <p/>A runaway bestseller in Israel, in the words of the <i>Christian Science Monitor</i>: It's time for Americans to fall in love with (Grossman's) <i>Someone to Run With</i>.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"<i>Someone to Run With</i> reveals again that Grossman is one of contemporary literature's most versatile and absorbing writers....A deceptively simple story that is another revelation of Grossman's genius." --<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> <p/>"Beautiful and arresting...Grossman has created a place of great dangers and improbable strokes of fortune, of compelling suspense and love's labors gained." --<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"Passionate and heartfelt...a story that is at once universal and specific, a classical fable of love brought to contemporary Israel." --<i>Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>David Grossman</b> has received several international awards for his writing, including the Premio Grinzane and the Premio Mondelo for <i>The Zigzag Kid</i>. He is the author of several novels, including <i>Be My Knife, Someone to Run With, The Book of Intimate Grammar</i>, children's books, and a play. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and children.
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