An American Jew: A Writer Confronts His Own Exile and Identity
272 pages
|Published: 2 Dec 2015
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ISBN: 9781936891412
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Black Irish Entertainment
Publication date: 2 December 2015
Description
Steven Pressfield grew up assuming he was like every other kid in his red-white-and-blue, Sunday-School attending, Christmas-tree decorating suburb. Then at age thirteen he found out he was in fact not a member of that tribe, but of a very different one. Five decades later, in November 2011, Pressfield boarded an El Al jet bound for Israel. At long last, he'd committed to researching and writing THE LION'S GATE, a book that would finally wrestle with the riddle of his own identity. What he learned as an artist and a man in the three years it took to complete the work is the subject of AN AMERICAN JEW, an on-the-front-lines account of the creative process. . . in all its wonderfully confounding forms.
