"How we can rethink our lives and reality to remove our filters and realize the wholeness that is inherent in ourselves and in our world"-- An award-winning, compelling novel of spiritual adventure about a gorilla named Ishmael, who possesses immense wisdom, and the man who becomes his pupil, offers answers to the world's most pressing moral dilemmas. Found insideIn Writing Monsters, best-selling author Philip Athans uses classic examples from books, films, and the world around us to explore what makes monsters memorable--and terrifying. These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place ... Then Greg wakes up and discovers that he's Richard, an emotionally-disturbed man committed to a sanitarium--and married to Ginny. Dreamer foreshadows the complexity of Quinn's Turner Award-winning book Ishmael. Found inside"I can make you explode with pleasure…" Kassius Black rose from the ashes of his catastrophic childhood driven by revenge against the father who abandoned him. In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. Thirteen stories with Jewish themes span the spectrum of the American Jewish experience, from secular to orthodox This is a world seen through animist eyes: as friendly to human life as it was to the life of gazelles, lions, lizards, mosquitos, jellyfish, and seals — not a world in which humans lived like trespassers who must conquer and subdue an ... The question now is, can we discern what is written inside of this operating manual and garner the courage to live in accordance with its precepts? - Publisher. In this dazzling metaphysical thriller, four who put themselves in the hands of these all-but-forgotten Others venture across a sinister American landscape hidden from normal view, finding their way to interlocking destinies of death, ... 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