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Travel along with Manny Markovitz and his guide, Abis -- part Native American, part madman -- as they take you on a wild, always funny, sometimes poignant journey from the wilds of Greece to the bogs and barrier islands of south Georgia, USA in search for Abis's boss, Willy Love. Enter with them into a world of imagination, wild adventure and absolute delight as Manny wakens back to life and love after a great personal tragedy. Perhaps you will, too. Critic Erwin Ford calls Revelations "a Candide for the 21st century." PRAISE FOR SANDY COHEN AND REVELATIONS "I love it! And I'm jealous. . . you're quite a writer. Such pure, unadorned dialect; good strong story. Your characters live." -- Janice Daugharty, author of Earl in the Yellow Shirt (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize) "Moving . . . powerful. . . ." -- Elizabeth S. Morgan "A fine prose-poem." -Wayne Brown, author of On the Coast (winner of the Commonwealth Prize)
Revelations Sandy Cohen 9780984621699 Books
Revelations, by Sandy Cohen, features extraordinary characters thrown together in an exciting allegorical journey through the forests and swamps that lead to the ever-elusive island of love. As we see with many Shakespearean plays, in this novel the wilds of the forest serve as a place for the characters to shed societal norms and discover how they really think and feel. Manny Markovitz, referred to throughout as Manny Man, seems initially to be a regular enough guy. However, through his delightful and frustrating relationship with a trickster/court jester/sidekick named Abis, and the many trials and setbacks of their journey, Manny Man's more distinctive traits begin to progressively emerge, leading to a zany plot that is tightly interwoven with character. Prodded along by Abis, Manny Man relinquishes the controlling aspects of his nature that previously prevented self-understanding and connection with others.In addition to the Shakespearean patterns, there are many other literary patterns and allusions. Frequent echoes of T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Miguel de Cervantes , Homer and many others abound. Yet, with all of these wonderful literary allusions, Revelations is still completely and uniquely its own story. Even if you don't catch a single allusion, you can still enjoy the hilarious, wacky, wise, and fully engaging narrative.
Revelations is a book that exists on many levels, for it is also deeply philosophical. Yet again, Cohen has structured the narrative so that if you are not familiar with the traditional or scholarly philosophies underlying the narrative, you can still appreciate the easily accessible folk, life, and spiritual philosophies that lie shimmering on the surface.
This book is a remarkable accomplishment: it is not only an important, and, no doubt, enduring literary work, it is also a delightful and wildly entertaining read that anyone can appreciate.
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Revelations Sandy Cohen 9780984621699 Books Reviews
This was one of the most unique books I have ever read. The characters all have their own quirks and traits that are very memorable and distinct. The reader will connect to Manny and Abis and will enjoy following their story as they search for Manny's boss, Willy Love. Along the way, the characters forget about their "normal lives" and turn to, perhaps, their natural selves-without society interfering. This occurrence brings about many humorous, contemplative, and intriguing scenes.
Abis is the character who gets Manny to loosen up and relax. He is the trickster, the funny one, and the one who serves a double purpose-comedic relief and to get the other character to forget about societal norms. Manny at first appears completely normal...and at the end of the book, he is still normal-perhaps even more so, how he would have been had he not been ingrained with societal rules.
This book could be considered philosophical, however, if a reader doesn't typically enjoy that type of genre...the book is many other things as well. There is humor, mystery, adventure, etc... that the reader will also appreciate. This book is recommended for adults.
*complimentary review copy provided, this does not affect my opinion in any way*
Action, adventure, exotic locales, and an irreverent often slapstick sense of humor mark Sandy Cohen's imaginative LOL novel, Revelations. Manny, or "Manny-Man" Markovitz, as Abis, the rather oddball new friend and guide Manny encounters on his Odyssian travels to Greece and south Georgia's barrier islands, calls him, is the unlikely and frequently frazzled hero of Sandy Cohen's book. Don't pick up this book thinking that it is going to be about the biblical book of Revelations. It's called Revelations because of the insights, or revelations, that Manny experiences when he realizes that life and even love can go on after the tragic death of his wife. In their search for Abis's boss, Willy Love, Manny's picaresque adventures with Abis are a revelatory way to enable Manny to let go of a large amount of accumulated emotional baggage- not to mention, also some actual baggage in Greece and Georgia.
Why should you be interested in immediately clicking at this site to purchase this wonderful book by Sandy Cohen, or rushing off to your nearest book store to buy it? Because it's a quite funny novel, and Woody Allen and the Marx Brothers haven't made funny movies for years, the Marx Brothers being sadly dead and Woody Allen sadly too often substituting intellectual insights for humor in his more recent movies. They're still great entertainment, but not Take the Money and Run or Bananas. The humor of Sandy Cohen's Revelations does sometimes rely on sexual innuendo or gross bodily functions, but that (whether intended or not) I took to be a sort of homage to the great 18th. century humorous novels by authors like Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding, not to mention (but I am) Miguel Cervantes. Smollett coincidently translated a version of Cervantes' Don Quixote.
Not to worry, though, if any of these references are a bit obscure or mean little or nothing to you. I'm just saying by referring to them that there is a long and important tradition of using sexual and scatological humor in literature, and Sandy Cohen is following in some very large and impressive footsteps in his also occasionally using this type of humor in Revelations. But, now that I have anaesthetized and pinned back the wings of the butterfly Lapidae humoris vulgaris, thus probably killing it in the attempt, what is Revelations about?
After his wife Sara dies, Manny, who is a professor, decides to follow the advice of some of his friends and colleagues and "take a sabbatical and travel." And, where should this modern-day Odysseus journey to, other than "to the place of light, to Greece, to find some equilibrium in my life again." He does just this, though the "equilibrium" he discovers there through his developing friendship with Abis at first seems to be more of a source of chaos than equilibrium. Abis seems, if anything, more to be a person to avoid rather than one to start palling around with.
Manny and his tour bus stop at Delphi, which his guidebook describes as being "The navel of Mother Earth." Manny first sees Abis' small dog, Rabbit, before he sees Abis himself. The dog goes to point, Abis grabs something, and starts to rip it apart, feathers flying everywhere. Manny screams out "Hey!" to get the man to stop, but the man acts as if he doesn't hear Manny. It looks to Manny as if the man is "spreading the entrails out on the ground and leaning over them on all fours like someone reading the Sunday comics."
In an act of generosity, Manny shares his food with Abis, after talking to him a while. Abis then briefly leaves, and returns with a picnic basket and two bottles of wine, which he shares with Manny. Abis admits that the wine is stolen, but not the picnic basket. They get drunk, and Manny makes the fateful decision to follow Abis instead of to continue on with the rest of his tour group. He gets his luggage out of the bus, and they embark on a very colorful journey through Greece, mostly riding the backs of donkeys. Later, when one of the three donkeys they eventually have runs off, along with Manny's luggage, he has to rely more than ever on the often ridiculous but sometimes philosophical sayings of Abis and just live life as it comes to him, or he, to it.
Is Willy Love a real person? Though they don't met him, and in Abis' words and tales he becomes somewhat of a legendary figure, they do show up a day late to a gigantic tent that's been set up in the wilds of Greece, with long tables inside, ice sculptures, and servants who act as if they've been expecting Abis and Manny to arrive. The servants bring them a veritable feast to partake from, and there are even jugglers and dancers to entertain them-all courtesy of the illusive Willy Love. I especially enjoyed the sly biblical reference in the novel, when Abis in Georgia tells Manny, referring to Willy's mansion they're searching for "Wilhelm Love has many mansions, many rooms." Like God Himself, Willy appears to have mansions all around the world, with many rooms in them.
Revelations is not about the Book of Revelations, but it is a revelatory reading experience, and you may need a box of Kleenex nearby to wipe your tears of laughter away as you read Manny's and Abis' crazy exploits in search of Willy Love. As with any journey or picaresque novel worthy of the name, the trip itself is of greater significance than any end goal. The Lord of the Rings would have been much briefer and more to the point if Tolkien had written, soon after Bilbo Baggins made off with Gollum's ring of power, "and then, lots of stuff happened and a different hobbit eventually throws the ring into a fiery volcano." But, the series wouldn't have become the great literary classic it is today, nor would it have been made into multi-million dollar movies, if "the stuff" was left out. I highly recommend you read Revelations by Sandy Cohen, who is himself quite clever and has included some very interesting "stuff" indeed in his book.
Revelations, by Sandy Cohen, features extraordinary characters thrown together in an exciting allegorical journey through the forests and swamps that lead to the ever-elusive island of love. As we see with many Shakespearean plays, in this novel the wilds of the forest serve as a place for the characters to shed societal norms and discover how they really think and feel. Manny Markovitz, referred to throughout as Manny Man, seems initially to be a regular enough guy. However, through his delightful and frustrating relationship with a trickster/court jester/sidekick named Abis, and the many trials and setbacks of their journey, Manny Man's more distinctive traits begin to progressively emerge, leading to a zany plot that is tightly interwoven with character. Prodded along by Abis, Manny Man relinquishes the controlling aspects of his nature that previously prevented self-understanding and connection with others.
In addition to the Shakespearean patterns, there are many other literary patterns and allusions. Frequent echoes of T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Miguel de Cervantes , Homer and many others abound. Yet, with all of these wonderful literary allusions, Revelations is still completely and uniquely its own story. Even if you don't catch a single allusion, you can still enjoy the hilarious, wacky, wise, and fully engaging narrative.
Revelations is a book that exists on many levels, for it is also deeply philosophical. Yet again, Cohen has structured the narrative so that if you are not familiar with the traditional or scholarly philosophies underlying the narrative, you can still appreciate the easily accessible folk, life, and spiritual philosophies that lie shimmering on the surface.
This book is a remarkable accomplishment it is not only an important, and, no doubt, enduring literary work, it is also a delightful and wildly entertaining read that anyone can appreciate.
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