- Published: 3 September 2007
- ISBN: 9780812973327
- Imprint: Random House US Group
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $34.99
Not Me
A Novel
- Published: 3 September 2007
- ISBN: 9780812973327
- Imprint: Random House US Group
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $34.99
‘Michael Lavigne has an immensely powerful story to tell of guilt and redemption. Beyond its riveting plot, NOT ME is a novel about the loss and recovery of love. In this sense it reminded me of Dickens’s GREAT EXPECTATIONS: Heshel Rosenheim is as mysterious and haunting as Magwitch, and the lesson that his uncanny life imparts to his son, and to Lavigne’s readers, is on a grand human scale, and unforgettable.’ - Jonathan Wilson, author of A PALESTINE AFFAIR
"Not Me is a novel with a powerfully unsettling moral conundrum at its heart: is radical evil indelible, can anything undo it? But what philosophy cannot resolve, storytelling triumphantly can. Michael Lavigne's radiantly imagined portrait of human possibility never obscures the blackest abyss of real history, and his Heshel Rosenheim emerges with all the complexity of a modern Raskolnikov." --Cynthia Ozick
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