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Book SynopsisSelected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday Times
What is it about Adam and Eve’s story that fascinates us?
Trade ReviewA
compelling, all-encompassing story of myth, theology and belief ... He delves deftly and lucidly into theology...
Fascinating -- Sam Leith * Spectator *
Thrilling … a study of western disenchantment, of intellectual progress, of the fading powers of the myths of a simpler age. But it is a more complex study than that. It is also
an ode to human creativity and to the powerful grip of narrative -- Tim Whitmarsh * Guardian *
Fascinating -- Christina Borg * Sunday Times *
Enthralling, thrilling… Along the way, there is an often hilarious account of scholastic efforts to rationalise the myth’s illogic, and an array of entertaining heresies… What gives Greenblatt’s “intellectual adventure” its tension and excitement is a sense of his own divided loyalties -- Peter Conrad * Observer *
Erudite, wide-ranging, thought-provoking and elegantly fashioned -- Darragh McManus * Irish Independent *
Greenblatt, on
excellent form here, visits familiar destinations ... with fresh eyes, and opens up new interpretative vistas ... Hefty themes are covered in this
spellbinding book, but the learning is worn lightly. -- Jonathan Wright * BBC History magazine *
This is a learned book, but Greenblatt’s passion for story-telling makes it read like a series of fascinating anecdotes…
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve is
exhilarating to read and
a feast for the mind -- John Carey * Sunday Times *
Greenblatt is utterly engaging. -- Miri Rubin * Prospect *
Greenblatt's inexhaustible curiosity goes without saying; what makes this book a wonder is its passion …
nothing less than a love story, a hymn. Who would have thought scholarship could be so ardent or so poignant? -- Howard Jacobson, winner of the MAN Booker Prize
Pellucid, absorbing and for many contemporary readers surely
definitive account -- John Gray * New Statesman *
