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Lesley Hazleton

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gender

female

website

http://www.jezebelbook.com

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, History, Religion & Spirituality

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multifarious

member since

September 2007

About this author

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1. My new book 'Jezebel: the untold story of the bible's harlot queen' is just out (Doubleday). Yes, she was framed. No, she was no harlot. Yes, she was magnificent.

2. Won't bore you with the whole bio -- it's in the 'About the Author' page on www.jezebelbook.com. For now: British-born, lived for a long time in the Middle East, now live in the very Pacific Northwest.

3. Favorite drink is grappa.
Natural habitat is high desert (which must have something to do with my living on a houseboat/floating home at sea level...)
Am gnostic agnostic (and yes, will write a long piece/short book explaining that one day).

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Books by Lesley Hazleton

Average rating: 3.91 · 442 ratings · 134 reviews · 11 distinct works

	After The Prophet: The Epic Story Of The Shia Sunni Split In Islam 4.10 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Jezebel: The Untold Story Of The Bible's Harlot Queen 3.71 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Mary 3.51 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Driving To Detroit: Memoirs Of A Fast Woman 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Confessions Of A Fast Woman 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	England, Bloody England: An Expatriate's Return 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	My rating:
	Where Mountains by Lesley Hazleton (Goodreads Author), LESLEY HAZELTON 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Everything Women Always Wanted to Know about Cars; But Didn't Know Who to Ask 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	The Right to Feel Bad 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Israeli Women 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1978	My rating:

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The World Without Us

by Alan Weisman

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read in January, 2007

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Lesley Hazleton said: "What'll I tell you? I'm finding it incredibly soothing to read this book. The very idea that if we were all to disappear tomorrow, the world would actually recover -- okay, it'd take thousands of years, but it would, it really would survive us... Wel...more "

Sep 27, 2007 12:30pm · see review

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Lesley Hazleton is now friends with Tsipi, Marie B and Lavande
Jan 16, 2008 09:48am
Lesley Hazleton gave to: Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer	My rating:
Mailer, check. Too long, check. Creaky structure, check. Weird pseudo-psycho theorizing, check. Obsession with buggery, check. Tin ear for female characters, check. BRILLIANT, check. Yes, brilliant. Mailer's CIA novel, through to the Bay of Pigs, Cuban miss...more
Dec 22, 2007 04:48pm · see review
Lesley Hazleton gave to: Flight of the Goose by Lesley Thomas (Goodreads Author) read in December, 2007	My rating:
Lesley Thomas has done what would seem to be the impossible -- taken us deep inside the Inupiat world, in the voice and mind of an extraordinary young woman with still more extraordinary powers. I know of no book like this. "Smilla's Sense of Snow" i...more
Dec 15, 2007 10:57am · see review
Lesley Hazleton gave to: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz	My rating:
Trans-bloody-cendent * ----------------------------- * And yes, read the footnotes, all of them -- they're the structural underpinning of this amazing novel
Oct 30, 2007 02:13pm · see review
Lesley Hazleton made a comment on Laureen Vonnegut's review of The Alchemist "Right on, Laureen. My reaction to the preach, preach, preach was yawn, yawn, yawn... "
Oct 29, 2007 07:19pm · see review
Lesley Hazleton gave to: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant	My rating:
Extraordinary story, wonderfully told. Was haunted by this story ever since I first read part of it, I think in The New Yorker, or maybe Harper's. Pounced on it when I saw it had come out as a book. Not just the built-in tension of the disappearing h...more
Oct 26, 2007 04:05pm · see review
Lesley Hazleton gave to: The Fire This Time by Randall Kenan (Goodreads Author) read in December, 2007	My rating:
Oct 22, 2007 04:57pm
Lesley Hazleton made a comment on Lesley's review of Jezebel: The Untold Story Of The Bible's Harlot Queen "In case you're wondering what's going on here, the above review was written by Lesley Thomas, an extraordinary writer in her own right/write, not by m...more "
Oct 22, 2007 10:16am · see review