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1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by William Dufris. |
| Summary |
An intoxicating combination of mystery, spirituality, redemption, piety, and passion, The World To Come is Dara Horn's follow-up to her breakout, critically acclaimed debut novel In the Image. Using a real-life art heist as her starting point, Horn traces the life and times of several characters, including Russian-born artist Marc Chagall and the New Jersey–based Ziskind family. Benjamin Ziskind, a former child prodigy, now spends his days writing questions for a television trivia show. After Ben's twin sister, Sara, forces him to attend a singles cocktail party at a Jewish museum, Ben spots Over Vitebsk, a Chagall sketch that once hung in the twins' childhood home. Convinced the painting was stolen from his family, Ben steals the work of art and enlists Sara to create a forgery to replace it. While trying to evade the police, Ben attempts to find the truth of how the painting got to the museum.From a Jewish orphanage in 1920s Soviet Russia where Marc Chagall brought art to orphaned Jewish boys, to a junior high school in Newark, New Jersey, with a stop in the jungles of Da Nang, Vietnam, Horn weaves a story of mystery, romance, folklore, history and theology into a spellbinding modern tale. Richly satisfying and utterly unique, her novel opens the door to "the world to come"-not life after death, but the world we create through our actions right now. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985 -- Appreciation -- Fiction.
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Art thefts -- Fiction.
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Fugitives from justice -- Fiction.
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Siblings -- Fiction.
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Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Parents -- Death -- Fiction.
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Jewish families -- Fiction.
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Twins -- Fiction.
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Dufris, William.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781400122301 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1400122309 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10756601 |
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