Heads You Lose

By Martin Samuel Cohen

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896860931
• ISBN13: 9781896860930
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

The Seductive Pleasure of Getting Even

I very much enjoyed this unusual, slightly twisted book, which may contain every decapitation story in the Hebrew Bible, and then some. The book deals with the classic issues of injustice, cruel outrage, guilt, redemption, sweet revenge obtained, and justice received. It gets pretty exciting (and funny) along the way. Saul, a middle aged professor of Bible studies, takes off on a road trip across Canada to get away from it all after his brother hangs himself, his wife leaves him for the gardener's brother, his parents slip into dementia, and he loses his job without warning when the college drops Bible studies from its curricula. Along the way Saul picks up a 19 year old hitchhiker whose mother drowned herself after years of terrible abuse by his father. They both are carrying a lot of baggage they need to work through, and as you might expect, it all gets tied up into nice little, satisfying, but surprising, packages by the end. The only problem I had with the book is that the next book I read was Harold S. Kushner's new book, "Living a Life that Matters," and it has a whole chapter bashing "the seductive pleasure of getting even," which made me feel kind of guilty at having enjoyed "Heads You Lose" so much.

A MUST READ

THIS BOOK AS WELL AS OTHERS I HAVE READ BY MARTIN COHEN ARE REAL PAGE TURNERS. ITS GREAT TO FIND A BOOK EVEN THE PHONE RINGING WON'T INTERUPT!!!!