Jeremiah's Ghost
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1849823340 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A wandering adolescent who sees the Twin Towers as the legs of an interplanetary god. A new adult battered by the absence of that god.Burdened by the weight of the past and the uncertainty of the future, Jeremiah sets out in search of the answers to his own mysteries, embarking on a journey that will carry him from the raves of New York to the Latin tropics to Israel's Independence Hall, and back to an autumn evening in The Sheep Meadow when the world was still whole.A story of fathers and sons, self and shadows, Jeremiah's Ghost traces the path of a young man through a landscape where memory is just another kind of fiction.. A boy shrinking from the anger of his father. A child petrified by the shadows in his bedroom
Lovecraft’s protagonists, though pursued by inner rather than supernatural demons. Careening between the grandiose and the abject, he tries writing, women, travel, and drugs as his obsessive means of coming to terms with his own rage and sense of having been emotionally abused in this coming-of-age odyssey that’s both harrowing and moving.. P. An Apocalyptic Fantasy is right: the hero of Jeremiah’s Ghost is as haunted and given over to intensities and anguish as one of H
ClareD1"Soul Searching to fix a possible broken future" according to ClareD12Soul Searching to fix a possible broken future There is a lot of pain in Jeremiah. He is on a soul search, attempting to figure out the deep seeded root cause of his pain. Between the anger/rage, drug benders/abuse/experimentation, and overall rejection and somewhat self-loathing, Jeremiah realizes there is reason behind these behaviors. The once young boy raised in a Jewish home, with a semi-abusive father, Jeremiah has flashbacks of his youth, adolescence and college years to figure out where the anger, hatred and overall disdain comes from. Jeremiah is self-unaware that he is broken, and needs to understand how to really "rid himself" of the ghosts of his . . There is a lot of pain in Jeremiah. He is on a soul search, attempting to figure out the deep seeded root cause of his pain. Between the anger/rage, drug benders/abuse/experimentation, and overall rejection and somewhat self-loathing, Jeremiah realizes there is reason behind these behaviors. The once young boy raised in a Jewish home, with a semi-abusive father, Jeremiah has flashbacks of his youth, adolescence and college years to figure out where the anger, hatred and overall disdain comes from. Jeremiah is self-unaware that he is broken, and needs to understand how to really "rid himself" of the ghosts of his . Soul Searching to fix a possible broken future There is a lot of pain in Jeremiah. He is on a soul search, attempting to figure out the deep seeded root cause of his pain. Between the anger/rage, drug benders/abuse/experimentation, and overall rejection and somewhat self-loathing, Jeremiah realizes there is reason behind these behaviors. The once young boy raised in a Jewish home, with a semi-abusive father, Jeremiah has flashbacks of his youth, adolescence and college years to figure out where the anger, hatred and overall disdain comes from. Jeremiah is self-unaware that he is broken, and needs to understand how to really "rid himself" of the ghosts of his . said Soul Searching to fix a possible broken future. There is a lot of pain in Jeremiah. He is on a soul search, attempting to figure out the deep seeded root cause of his pain. Between the anger/rage, drug benders/abuse/experimentation, and overall rejection and somewhat self-loathing, Jeremiah realizes there is reason behind these behaviors. The once young boy raised in a Jewish home, with a semi-abusive father, Jeremiah has flashbacks of his youth, adolescence and college years to figure out where the anger, hatred and overall disdain comes from. Jeremiah is self-unaware that he is broken, and needs to understand how to really "rid himself" of the ghosts of his . I received a free copy of the book, and yet I still want my money back reneca The most daring thing about this book is that, in the short span of its title, it manages to tell you exactly what it is NOT. Jeremiah's Ghost: an Apocalyptic Fantasy, is not so much apocalyptic as it is a rather timid jab at exploring post-9/11 American anxiety (and how it affected that most precious and vulnerable of Americans: the young, upper-middle-class, white male writer). It is fantasy in the sense that you normally wouldn't encounter lost souls these predictable and laughably doomed outside comic books.As for Jeremiah and his ghost? Hell if I know. Good luck trying to care about who he is.But it's not as. "A beautiful and messy story" according to GGG. Jeremiah’s Ghost, Isaac Constantine’s first (but certainly not last) novel, tells the story of Jeremiah’s childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, as he tries to find meaning and a valued self. Jeremiah is troubled by adults who do not know how to process, manage, or acknowledge their own emotions, frailties, and deficits; blinded by their own unrecognized challenges, these adults cannot see Jeremiah, let alone help him understand the complexities of self, relationships, life, death, and the world at large. Instead, adults—and society as a whole—repeatedly give Jeremiah the messa