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Winner of

The New Millenium Award for Fiction

 

(excerpted from MINYAN)

 

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The 99th Monkey!

New
From Santa Monica Press

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Advance Praise for
The 99th Monkey:

"A must read for anyone interested in the phenomenon of spiritual growth in the West over the past forty years."
  
--Rabbi David A. Cooper,
author of God  is a Verb

“... funny, beautifully written, and often extremely moving and thought-provoking..”

--Colin Wilson,
author of The Outsider

"Thankfully, Sobel's utter failure to get enlightened is chronicled with laughter, irreverence, insight and raw truth.”                      

--Gabrielle Roth,
author of Sweat Your Prayers,

"...balancing between wisdom and absurdity, Eliezer Sobel provides a generous contribution to countercultural history."

--Paul Krassner,
author of One Hand Jerking

 

"This book made me happier than most of the spiritual books I read these days. Enjoy."

 

--Wes `Scoop'  Nisker,
  author of The Big Bang, The Buddha,
& the Baby Boom

By all means follow The 99th Monkey down the road apiece that passeth understanding. It looks like big fun."

--Wavy Gravy,
author of
Something Good for a Change

 



Minyan:

Winner of the

Peter Taylor Prize

For the Novel

Read an excerpt from MINYAN

 

FIRST NOVEL BLUES:
The Story Behind Minyan

"HOLY FOOL"
a profile of Eliezer Sobel from THE FORWARD


"ONE IN A MINYAN"
Review of Minyan from The Daily Progress
Charlottesville, VA

OTHER REVIEWS

 

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PRAISE FOR MINYAN:

“Who knew he could write like that? My son is a genius.”

--Mrs. Sobel,
author's mother

One of my favorite jokes:Two wise old rabbis are walking on the beach, contemplating life in companionable silence. Finally one rabbi says to the other, “I’ve been thinking…”“And what is it you’ve been thinking?”“I’ve been thinking that the very best thing… is never to have been born at all.”
They walk a bit farther. The other rabbi finally replies, “Yes. But who has such luck? Not one in ten thousand.”

If you think this joke is funny, read this book. If you don’t think this joke is funny, read this book. It is funny and sad and funny, but not so... existentially enigmatic... there is a taste of bitter herbs along with the sponge cake. And then a final vision - not so much one of happiness as of grace.”

--John Casey,
author of Spartina


“…a delightful tale of a community of Jewish men trying to find meaning and love in contemporary society....There are passages here so inventive, so lyrical, so downright funny, that readers will share them, going to get the book to read out loud....
This novel is not for a Jewish audience only. One learns things in any good novel, and among the things one learns in MINYAN are many things Jewish but, more importantly, one learns many things human.... MINYAN is one of those novels that makes its own, quirky way, extending the range of the boundary of the novel. Good readers will recognize here things they have never seen before.”

--Alan Wier.
author of Tehano