The Revisionist

Helen Schulman

first published 1998 Crown Publishers, 1998 246 pages

In a novel that is part love story, part black comedy, and part searing family tragedy, Dr. David Hershleder, a brilliant but tortured Jewish neurologist on the cusp of turning forty, is thrown out of the house by his shiksa wife. He still loves her and his children, but an essential something, the piece of him that should know how to share his heart, is dead. In order to avoid the crushing weight of his loss, he emb...

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The Revisionist paperback · 2001 · Bloomsbury USA · 246 pages · 9781582341729
The revisionist edition · 1998 · Crown Publishers · 246 pages
The Revisionist edition · 1998 · Random House Value Publishing · 9780609000519

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