03914cam a2200445 4500 235198683 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307574800 0307574806 e97a2b17-23b8-43ce-897b-981adda1f1ee OverDrive (Reserve ID) 299867 OverDrive (Product ID) 136900 299867 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Quinn, Daniel. Ishmael [Libby] : An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit. Random House Publishing Group, 2009. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2481kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p>"A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet...laid out for us with an originality and a clarity that few would deny."</p>. HTML:<i>New York Times Book Review</i>. "[Quinn] entrap[s] us in the dialogue itself, in the sweet and terrible lucidity of Ishmael's analysis of the human condition...it was surely for this deep, clear persuasiveness of argument that Ishmael was given its huge prize.". HTML:<i>The Washington Post</i>. "It is as suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction book you are likely to read this or any other year". HTML:<i>The Austin Chronicle</i>. "Deserves high marks as a serious -- and all too rare -- effort that is unflinchingly engaged with fundamental life-and-death concerns.". HTML:<i>The Atlanta Journal Constitution</i>. HTML:<p><b>MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES IN PRINT</b><br /> <br /> 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 to 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?<br /> <br /> <i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 20:32:42. http://westtexas.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=e97a2b17-23b8-43ce-897b-981adda1f1ee http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/E97/A2B/17/IshmaelAnAdventureoftheMindandSpirit9780307574800.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=E97A2B17-23B8-43CE-897B-981ADDA1F1EE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/E97/A2B/17/IshmaelAnAdventureoftheMindandSpirit9780307574800.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=E97A2B17-23B8-43CE-897B-981ADDA1F1EE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/E97/A2B/17/IshmaelAnAdventureoftheMindandSpirit9780307574800.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=E97A2B17-23B8-43CE-897B-981ADDA1F1EE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) CCTYL