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      by Amos Oz
      Published
      Mar 1989
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex, Alex and Michel (Ilana's Moroccan husband), Alex and his Mephistophelian Jerusalem lawyer—a correspondence between mother and father, stepfather and stepson, father and son, each pleading his or her own case.

      The grasping, lyrical, manipulative, loving Ilana has stirred things up. Now, her former husband and her present husband have become rivals not only for her loyalty but for her son's as well.

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      First Edition Mar 1989 Vintage ISBN13 9780679721857 ISBN10 0679721851
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      May 1993 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099303831 ISBN10 0099303833
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      Oct 2012 Mariner ISBN13 9780547747590 ISBN10 0547747594
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      Apr 1988 Houghton Mifflin ISBN13 9780151128884 ISBN10 015112888X
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      Oct 2012 Houghton Mifflin ISBN10 B005MZN0X2
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