Jeremiah's Ghost - by Isaac Constantine (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>A child petrified by the shadows in his bedroom. A boy shrinking from the anger of his father. A wandering adolescent who sees the Twin Towers as the legs of an interplanetary god. A new adult battered by the absence of that god.</p><p>Burdened by the weight of the past and the uncertainty of the future, Jeremiah sets out in search of the answers to his own mysteries, embarking on a journey that will carry him from the raves of New York to the Latin tropics to Israel's Independence Hall, and back to an autumn evening in The Sheep Meadow when the world was still whole.</p><p>A story of fathers and sons, self and shadows, J<i>eremiah's Ghost</i> traces the path of a young man through a landscape where memory is just another kind of fiction.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A child petrified by the shadows in his bedroom. A boy shrinking from the anger of his father. A wandering adolescent who sees the Twin Towers as the legs of an interplanetary god. A new adult battered by the absence of that god.</p><p></p><p>Burdened by the weight of the past and the uncertainty of the future, Jeremiah sets out in search of the answers to his own mysteries, embarking on a journey that will carry him from the raves of New York to the Latin tropics to Israel's Independence Hall, and back to an autumn evening in The Sheep Meadow when the world was still whole.</p><p></p><p>A story of fathers and sons, self and shadows, J<i>eremiah's Ghost</i> traces the path of a young man through a landscape where memory is just another kind of fiction.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Constantine courageously explores how we view our history, blendingthe familiar with a broader historical context. He artfully invites anexamination of identity, of what what it is to be wounded and torecover both self and community through a mystical journey of mind, body and spirit. Political yet personal, Constantine speaks with thetongue of metaphor and allows us to live in the border towns of unravelingclarity, with insightful wry humor sharpened by the skill and grace of a poet. <em>Jeremiah's Ghost</em> dares to pose questions that are rarelytolerated. But Constantine has the rare voice that dares to invoke away to heal ourselves of our Ghosts.</p> --Laura Albert, author of the JT LeRoy novels Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Thing "Laura Albert, author of the JT LeRoy novels Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Thing "<br><br><P>Constantine courageously explores how we view our history, blendingthe familiar with a broader historical context. He artfully invites anexamination of identity, of what what it is to be wounded and torecover both self and community through a mystical journey of mind, body and spirit. Political yet personal, Constantine speaks with thetongue ofmetaphor and allows us to live in the border towns of unravelingclarity, with insightful wry humor sharpened by the skill and grace of a poet. Jeremiah's Ghost dares to pose questions that are rarelytolerated. But Constantine has the rare voice that dares to invoke away to heal ourselves of our Ghosts. --Laura Albert, author of the JT LeRoy novels Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Thing "Laura Albert, author of the JT LeRoy novels Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Thing ""<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Isaac Constantine </b>was born in New York City in 1978. He attended Williams College, where he earned his BA in English, and Columbia University for an MFA in Fiction. Constantine worked briefly in publishing as an editorial assistant at <i>The Paris Review</i> and <i>Ecco</i>, an imprint of HarperCollins. He is a blogger, a freelance writer and editor, a veteran of the Occupy Wall Street movement and an activist associated with the Anonymous hacker collective. He lives in San Francisco.</p>
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