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David Grossman

A Horse Walks Into a Bar

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  • Ellen Shubichshared an impression6 years ago

    One of the most interesting books I have ever read. The writing, itself, is unique, the handling of the language, the irony, the plays on words, the way Grossman draws the reader in as we become
    the audience.The story is heartbreaking, it's 'humanness' is almost
    unnatural. So revealing and tragic but so real.

Quotes

  • rosdelorbehas quoted6 years ago
    "So, my first funeral…" He laughs and stretches out his thin arms. "Have you heard the one about the guys who die and get to the induction center in the sky, and they sort them into heaven or Netan—
  • rosdelorbehas quoted6 years ago
    mean hell? No, seriously, isn't that the greatest fear—that in the end it'll turn out the rabbis were right? That hell is a for-real place?" The audience snickers halfheartedly and people lower their eyes, reluctant to look at him.
  • rosdelorbehas quoted6 years ago
    I thought about my rulings, which I honed and polished down to every last sentence, and in which I would occasionally—with moderation, of course, unassumingly—work in a juicy metaphor or a quote from a poem by Pessoa, or Cavafy, or Nathan Zach, or even my own poetic imagery.

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