![]() In a feat of nonfiction magical realism, she brilliantly collapses the worlds of now and then into one realm, where Jezebel and Elijah effortlessly rub shoulders with Ehud Olmert and Sheik Hassan Nasrallah. ![]() into a prophetic mirror of our twenty-first-century religiopolitical wars. In her wonderfully spirited retelling of the Books of Kings, Lesley Hazleton makes Jezebel our contemporary, and turns the ninth century B.C. You'll never read the Hebrew bible the same way again." -Naomi Wolf, author of "The Beauty Myth" and "Misconceptions" "I read "Jezebel" in a single enthralled sitting. ![]() ![]() In Hazleton's hands, the real story of the 'harlot queen' is a vivid and magnificent drama with direct relevance to our own time. In a feat of nonfiction magical realism, she brilliantly collapses the worlds of now and then into one realm, where Jezebel and Elijah effortlessly rub shoulders with Ehud Olmert and Sheik Hassan Nasrallah.…The book is endlessly informative…it is also great fun." -Jonathan Raban, Advance Praise for "Jezebel: " "This riveting biography breaks through all our preconceptions about Jezebel. ![]() into a prophetic mirror of our twenty-first-century religio-political wars. "Lesley Hazleton makes Jezebel our contemporary, and turns the ninth-century B.C. ![]()
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