The Revisionist

by Helen Schulman

Book Overview

A black comedy about the difficulties and absurdities of confronting the past. Dr. David Hershleder, a brilliant but tortured neurologist, has been thrown out of the house by his wife. Stumbling... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 060960208X
• ISBN13: 9780609602089
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Helen Schulman is a genius.

Helen Schulman's exquisite book, The Revisionist, has haunted me as surely as the past haunted her protagonist, David Hershleder. She has somehow written a comic turn on the saddest of subjects. That comedy completely captures the heart and soul of her beseiged character as he struggles to find sense in his many losses. Her prose has the sharp, gorgeous, precise sensuality of color-field painting. A reader can only shake her head in wonder. Helen Schulman is a genius.