Blackout
Blackout: Yair Weinstock's 509 Page English Thriller Blackout by Yair Weinstock is a 509 page English hardcover. An investigative journalist with a habit of walking into danger and a strange tendency to black out, a plot to discredit Israel's chareidi community, a charismatic rabbi nobody can place, an antique sefer and a Rosh Yeshiva. The blackouts are the mechanism the plot turns on. Product Details Book details: Title Blackout Author Yair Weinstock Language English Format Hardcover Pages 509 Dimensions 6 x 9 inches Size Full size ISBN 13 9781578191963 SKU 9781578191963 Price $30.95 What Kind of Book This Is Weinstock writes thrillers with proper plotting: multiple threads that look unrelated for two hundred pages and then converge. Blackout has a journalist, a conspiracy against the chareidi community, an unexplained rabbi and an antique sefer running in parallel. The protagonist's blackouts are not a character quirk. They are the device that lets the book withhold information from the reader while the protagonist is present for it, which is a harder trick than it sounds and is what drives the tension. Length and Pacing Five hundred and nine pages is long for the genre, and it earns it by carrying several threads rather than padding one. A book this size in English Jewish fiction is a commitment of several evenings rather than an afternoon. Hardcover at 6 by 9 inches. A novel of this length gets passed around a family, and hardcover is what survives that. Weinstock in English Yair Weinstock is among the most widely read authors in English Jewish fiction, and readers who know his other titles will recognize the structure: many threads, a slow convergence, and a resolution that pulls the earlier chapters into focus. 1800 Eichlers carries his other novels in English. A reader who takes to Blackout usually works through the rest. Frequently Asked Questions Is it in English? Yes, English throughout. How long is it? 509 pages at 6 by 9 inches, in hardcover. Who is the...
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