Captives

by Hasak-Lowy, Todd

• ISBN13: 9780151014354
• ISBN10: 0151014353
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-07
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

Daniel Bloom is the kind of person who ends most social gatherings with an alternately raging and despairing conversation about the state of things. He is a screenwriter, a husband, and a father--pretty much in that order.One day Daniel begins a new project, a revenge fantasy that envisions a nameless assassin taking down the bad guys--the corporate chiefs, the political flacks. And quickly, unmistakably, he realizes that his premise for the screenplay is too good: that he really does want these people to die, that his sense of hopeless impotence has reached a stage of spiritual crisis that's no longer just a matter of vapid dinner-party conversation.Where Daniel goes from there--to Israel and to the hospital, among other destinations--is no mere private odyssey: it is, in its peculiarly and ferociously personal way, the epic journey of our age.

Author Biography

TODD HASAK-LOWY received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Florida, where he teaches Hebrew language and literature. He is the author of The Task of This Translator, a collection of stories. This is his first novel. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.