Brings to life that watershed moment when the man and woman who inhabited the Garden of Eden turned their backs on ancient laws in order to strike out independently. The story is told from the point of view of young Na'amah, Adam's daughter.
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Brings to life that watershed moment when the man and woman who inhabited the Garden of Eden turned their backs on ancient laws in order to strike out independently. The story is told from the point of view of young Na'amah, Adam's daughter.
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Add this copy of Leaving Eden to cart. $4.50, very good condition, Sold by Gladewater Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gladewater, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Forge.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. jacket slightly soiled and faded; copy has some fading of upper end of text block. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. Audience: General/trade.
Add this copy of Leaving Eden to cart. $7.00, very good condition, Sold by Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A. rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Salt Lake City, UT, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Forge.
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Very good. Great book! First Edition, Ex-Library book with dustjacket in mylar slipcover, light shelf wear. Stamped on top edge & endpage, no writing or marks in text.. From Publishers Weekly: In the beginning..."" traditionally opens the Judeo-Christian story of origins; but this provocative novel by historical fiction writer Chamberlin (The Reign of the Favored Women) wrestles with what happened before the beginning. The down-to-earth style of the narrative is set early on with a sly feminist joke (""Oh, Adam....He thinks he's the only man in the world. He always has"") and proceeds to explore the world of Na'amah, Adam's daughter by his first wife, Lilith, the immortal mother/goddess who vanished when Na'amah was still an infant. Now 15-year-old Na'amah is a respected storyteller, with a resentful, brooding father. Adam has grown restless without a wife, since tribal laws hold that a man cannot remarry while children from the first marriage live, unless he kills a great bull aurochs, an animal not seen since Adam's father's time. But Na'amah anxiously notes the increasing sensual tension between Adam and a woman from another tribe, called Eve. Soon enough, Adam begins to challenge the clan's laws to support his desire to take Eve as his wife. His increasingly delusional state separates him from the tribe, with Eve joining him in his dramatic estrangement. Na'amah trails the wayward couple, hoping to prevent disaster, but as Adam begins to make claims to a new God, ""his"" God, the peaceful valley of Eden is shaken. Lilith reappears to refute Adam's heresies and to challenge his selfish views. Chamberlin herself challenges traditional Christian theology in her supposition that Goddess Lilith preceded Adam's God, and in the book's surprising finale. Fans of Jean Auel, Linda Lay Shuler and the Gears (Kathleen O'Neal and W. Michael) will enjoy these strong, fascinating and multifaceted characters as well as the details that enliven the visionary panorama of Chamberlin's fine speculative fiction. (July) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc."" ""From Library Journal: In a dramatic departure from her well-known series set in the Ottoman Empire during the 16th century (e.g., The Reign of the Favored Women, LJ 8/98), Chamberlin takes a step further back in time to explore the biblical story of Adam and Eve. But this is not a faithful retelling of the Genesis story; as narrated by the daughter of Lillith, the mythical first wife of Adam, it casts the principle characters in an unfavorable light. Adam, in particular, is selfish, weak, and determined to replace the goddess-worship practiced by his clan with his own male godlike figure, the Auruch, a prehistoric bull-like animal. Eve is a youthful, self-centered temptress who never sees the folly of her allegiance to Adam in spite of the destruction of the clan's traditions and values. Though Chamberlin doesn't go into great anthropological detail, Lilith appears to come from a race of people who lived prior to modern man and are now extinct. The writing descends into a somewhat heavy-handed diatribe against men from time to time, but the story will appeal to those who are attracted to a more goddess-worshiping, female-centered way of life. AJane Baird, Anchorage Municipal Libs., AK Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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