Eternal life
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Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.
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9781432849139, 1432849131
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.
Format
Large Print
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369 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781432849139, 1432849131

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Ever since she made a deal to save her son's life in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, Rachel has been doomed to live eternally, but as her descendants develop new technologies for immortality, she realizes that, for them to live fully, she must die.
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At the heart of Horn's funny and compassionate novel is a 2,000-year-old Jewish mother seeking reasons for living, some way of dying, and help for her 56-year-old son who lives in her basement. Rachel's story begins in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, where at 16 she marries her father's apprentice although she loves the high priest's son, Elazar, and is pregnant with Elazar's baby. Two years later, when the child falls ill, Rachel makes a bargain with God: she must give up not her life but her death in exchange for the child's survival. The child survives, and Rachel endures successive lifetimes over the next 20 centuries, each lifetime immediately following the previous. Elazar, having made a similar bargain, pursues Rachel through time, occasionally finding her, though never for long. Now in 21st-century New York, Rachel's current form (or "version," as she calls it) is an 84-year-old widow. She thinks she has found a way to finally die, but first she wants to see her current problem child, the one in the basement, get a life. She also wishes to protect her granddaughter, a medical researcher dangerously close to discovering the truth behind Rachel's unusual DNA. Horn (A Guide for the Perplexed) weaves historical detail and down-to-earth humor into this charming Jewish Groundhog Day spanning two millennia.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Horn, D. (2018). Eternal life (Large print edition.). Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Horn, Dara, 1977-. 2018. Eternal Life. Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Horn, Dara, 1977-. Eternal Life Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Horn, Dara. Eternal Life Large print edition., Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.

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