Beautifully
written…grittily honest…delightfully charming…
Readers
have spoken. They wanted more from this masterpiece. So 10 new chapters have
been added in what many cite as among the finest coming-of-age memoir ever
written. Legendary novelist Jack Engelhard (Indecent
Proposal) recovers the past with fresh gems in this award-winning book,
honored, later in film, for its unique, minimalist style that delivers absolute
brilliance. Each short chapter sparkles and shines in this little memoir that
could.
Torn from their homes in France at the onset of the
Nazi invasion, and after a harrowing escape across the Pyrenees, the Engelhard
family -- Noah, Ida, Sarah and Jack -- must begin lives as refugees in a new
world -- first Canada (Montreal), later the United States. The
experiences that shaped young Jack Engelhard were those that profoundly changed
the world. Engelhard, often likened to
Hemingway and James M. Cain for precision, helps us understand that life itself is the process of learning who you are.
Praise Received for Escape from Mount Moriah
“In Escape from Mount Moriah, Jack Engelhard achieves the impossible.
In a single story, a single page, a single paragraph, even a single sentence,
he combines a deep, abiding love with the unvarnished, penetrating gaze of the
past, gritty realism with sublime philosophy, brevity with depth, the
quintessentially Jewish with the essentially universal, and witty humor with
the utmost seriousness.”
- Nissan Ratzlav-Katz, former
Opinion Editor for Israel National News.com
“For my
money every one of the 28 stories in this memoir has a latent brilliance and
character unmatched in any published stories of their kind. Jack Engelhard is
the last of the Hemingways.”
- John W. Cassell, author of Crossroads: 1969
About the Author
Contemporaries have hailed novelist Jack Engelhard as
“the last Hemingway” and of being “a writer without peer and the conscience of
us all.” The New York Times commended
the economy of his prose… “precise, almost clinical language.” His bestselling
novel Indecent Proposal made him
internationally famous as the foremost chronicler of moral dilemmas and of
topics dealing with temptation. Works that followed won him an even greater
following, such as Escape From Mount
Moriah, his book of memoirs that won awards for writing and for film. His latest novel Compulsive draws us into the mind of
a compulsive gambler in a work stunningly brilliant and original, and
seductively readable. Engelhard writes a weekly column for The Washington Times.