false <![CDATA[My Name Is Asher Lev]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216910027m/11507.jpg 11507 18 Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy.In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher&#8217;s passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other subject only to the imagination. Asher Lev grows up in a cloistered Hasidic community in postwar Brooklyn, a world suffused by ritual and revolving around a charismatic Rebbe. But in time his gift threatens to estrange him from that world and the parents he adores. As it follows his struggle, <i>My Name Is Asher Lev</i> becomes a luminous portrait of the artist, by turns heartbreaking and exultant, a modern classic. 924688 book 1972 My Name Is Asher Lev total:6985|5:2982|4:2591|3:1136|2:215|1:61| 6985 29173 8721 860 4 4 false false Fri Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 12:03:03 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 14:03:01 -0700 2008 The Chosen to read later.

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This was a book I had a hard time finishing. It was too easily put ...more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Oct 24 09:46:02 -0700 2007 Mon May 26 22:14:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 11:34:57 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 21:04:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 12:46:45 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 13:06:03 -0800 2008 1 I guess it was a coincidence that "A...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sun Oct 28 11:53:53 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 05 00:38:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Nov 25 16:31:53 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 17:05:21 -0800 2008
This book made me feel sad from early on, because I could tel...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 07:34:17 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 08:48:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 24 08:19:30 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 09:10:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 11 05:09:39 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 05:14:57 -0800 2008 Author: Chaim Potok
Genre: fiction
Pages: 384
Rating (out of 5 stars): *****
Description: Asher Lev is a Jewish boy in Brooklyn who has an incredible gift for art. Unfortunately, in his culture, artistic talent is viewed as futile at best and a cu...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 17 19:23:46 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 07:20:59 -0700 2009 Isenheim Altarpiece in France.more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 17:30:38 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 17:42:03 -0800 2009 I could not re...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 10 15:42:44 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 17:09:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jun 13 12:14:05 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 22:38:34 -0700 2009
Though it started slow for me, sputtering out of the gate with 3 stars, it soon picked up speed ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 04 10:13:19 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 26 06:29:33 -0800 2008 1 Asher Lev is a Hasidic Jew who wrestles with himself and his family over his decision to be an artist. Finally, he breaks with tradition and becomes a great artist.
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The novel explores many aspects of life but at the heart it is concerned with conflict - between father and son, husband and wife, religion and secularism, orthodoxy and freedom, tradi...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Mar 31 16:01:55 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 16:02:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=11507