Raymond and Hannah A Love Story |
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Author:
| Marche, Stephen |
ISBN: | 978-0-15-603257-5 |
Publication Date: | May 2005 |
Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $14.00 |
Book Description:
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Meeting as strangers at a party, Raymond and Hannah stumble into a one-night stand with unexpected consequences. Together, they share a single, magical week before Hannah leaves for Jerusalem, where she is to spend nine months at an orthodox yeshiva learning Torah among students who disapprove of intermarriage. Raymond, a graduate student researching love in Richard Burton’s
Anatomy of Melancholy, struggles with his loneliness and Hannah’s increasing...
More DescriptionMeeting as strangers at a party, Raymond and Hannah stumble into a one-night stand with unexpected consequences. Together, they share a single, magical week before Hannah leaves for Jerusalem, where she is to spend nine months at an orthodox yeshiva learning Torah among students who disapprove of intermarriage. Raymond, a graduate student researching love in Richard Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, struggles with his loneliness and Hannah’s increasing religiosity. Unable to make a clean break, they’re forced to try their insoluble problems in the city without solution, Jerusalem.