Jacob's folly
By: Rebecca Miller
Edition: First Canadian edition.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781443418263
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Reincarnation; Peddlers; Flies; Jews; Fiction
Description: Jacob is a Jewish peddler living in eighteenth-century France; Leslie and Deirdre Senzatimore are a settled American couple; and Masha is an alluring young ultra-Orthodox Jew who is gravely ill. In Jacob's Folly, these four individuals will find their fates intertwined and the courses of their lives irrevocably altered when Jacob is reincarnated as a house fly in contemporary Long Island.