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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Hardback - 1999

by Quinn, Daniel

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  • Hardcover

Now available in paperback for the first time, Ishmael is the winner of the Turner Tomorrow Award--a prize for fiction that offers solutions to global problems. When a man in search of truth answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious students, he finds himself alone in an abandoned office with a gorilla named Ishmael.

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  • Title Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
  • Author Quinn, Daniel
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Good Condition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Turtleback Books, NY USA
  • Date October 1999
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR002056248
  • ISBN 9780613080934 / 0613080939
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 5.24 x 0.95 in (20.98 x 13.31 x 2.41 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Didactic fiction, Human ecology
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch. "You are the teacher?" he asks incredulously. "I am the teacher," the gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story to tell, one that no other human being has ever heard. It is a story that extends backward and forward over the lifespan of the earth from the birth of time to a future there is still time save. Like all great teachers, Ishmael refuses to make the lesson easy; he demands the final illumination to come from within ourselves. Is it man's destiny to rule the world? Or is it a higher destiny possible for him-- one more wonderful than he has ever imagined?From the Trade Paperback edition.

First line

The first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor.