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The Hand Before the Eye

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Description

Farbman is a hustling New York lawyer with a shiksa wife and two kids, living beyond his financial and emotional means. Dunned by his creditors and distressed by an undiagnosed malaise of the soul, Farbman embodies the conflict between our altruistic impulse to help others and our selfish desire to elbow our way to the front of the line. The novel begins on Forty-Second Street in New York City. Farbman is on his way to an out-of-town funeral. He is rushing from a meeting with his unforgiving banker, to his chaotic office, to his parents' home, and then to the airport. Running late, Farbman considers canceling the trip, but doesn't. After the funeral, his lust for a fellow mourner leads him to an encounter with a mystic rabbi. The Hand Before the Eye is the often comic story of a contemporary man. With energetic and ironic prose, Donald Friedman take us into Farbman's world of law and medicine. Through Job-like suffering, Farbman gains enlightenment, learns the spiritual lessons of justice and healing. Finally, he understands that the good life offers us two true gifts: meaningful work and the love of another

Product Details

PublisherBottom Turtle Press
Publish DateDecember 29, 2017
Pages278
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781543906875
Dimensions8.9 X 6.0 X 0.9 inches | 1.1 pounds
BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction

About the Author

Donald Friedman, novelist, short story writer, and Huffington Post blogger, is also the author of the internationally praised and multiply translated The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers, and the illustrated humor book You're My Dawg, Dog: A Lexicon of Dog Terms for People. For more information or to contact him visit his website donaldfriedman.com.

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