In the Image (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Dara Horn
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century
- Setting: New Jersey, New York City, and Europe
- Principal Characters: Leora, Bill Landsmann, Nadav, Leah, Jason, Jake
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Children, New York, United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, New York City, Twenty-first century, Immigration or emigration, Jews or Jewish life, New Jersey, Bereavement or grief, Netherlands or Dutch people, Dolls or dollhouses, Isolation
- Locales: New York, NY, Europe, New Jersey
In the Image, Dara Horn’s first novel, having begun with the grief of the protagonist Leora over the death of her closest friend in high school, Naomi Landsmann, discloses, mostly through images, the connection Leora and other characters in the story have with their significance as Jews. If there is a flaw in the novel, it is not in the characterization, which is complex, nor in the story, which is intriguing, but in the abundant coincidences which permit predictability and rhetoric to tilt the story a bit like ballast unevenly placed.
Bill Landsmann, Naomi’s...
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