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Available
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Random (1981), Edition: First Edition
Description
Offers an arresting overview of Koestler's extraordinary career, organized and annotated by the author. Included is a sample of each kind of his prolific writing--novels, plays, polemics, treatises--providing a mosaic of one mind's lifework.
User reviews
LibraryThing member satanburger
i thought that there is all sorts of merit in this book although the middle portion was a summary of 'the act of creation' and 'the ghost in the machine'... its too bad koestler doesnt get the recognition he deserves. he is an exceptionally interesting character who offers all sorts of alternative
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thoughts on life through being observant. unfortunately he rocked the boat of one too many groups with some of his opinions and actions...namely zionist jews, women, ghandi supporters, anti euthanasia advocates, underwater basket-weavers, albino greenlandic pre-op transexuals, etc. etc. Show Less
LibraryThing member robertg69
hodge padge of comments about his writing
ISBN
0394518977 / 9780394518978
Local notes
FB Most notable: an excerpt from "The Thirteenth Tribe", a study of Ashkenazi Jews as of Khazar-Turkish, not Semitic, origin.Genetic studies are evolving; Most Ashkenazi are K mitochondrial type = Central and southern European maternal lines, Y chromosomes are of Middle Eastern types, especially similar to Kurds, Turks and Armenians more than Arabs. E and J haplogroups are especially common. Until modern times, Jews were largely endogamous.