![]() ![]() With these words we meet Julie Gerchak, one of the most engaging young heroes since Huckleberry Finn-and one of Ishmael's most challenging and rewarding disciples. „Then why won't you talk to me? Your ad in the paper said you need a pupil. „I don't doubt it,” he said, though the words sounded like they were pretty hard to get out. Don't you think a twelve-year-old girl can have an earnest desire to save the world?” ![]() ![]() Is that what you're telling me? You want me to go away because you give up. „I think we can safely say that I'm not prepared to deal with the needs of a person your age. The gorilla licked his lips-nervously, it seemed to me. In it, the Ishmael saga takes a startling direction that is in no way prefigured in the original. Quinn's new novel is a companion piece-not a story that follows the first but rather a story contemporaneous with the first. ![]() This extraordinary novel has become an underground bestseller and a testament for a burgeoning spiritual movement. Daniel Quinn's Ishmael was the winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, a prize honoring fiction that offers creative and positive solutions to global problems. ![]()
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