Title: Call Me Ishtar
Author: Rhoda Lerman
Language: English
Published: 23 May 2017
Publisher: The Overlook Press
ISBN: 9781468311419
Extension: EPUB
Size: 963 KB
Subjects: Fiction, Literature
Categories: Fiction, Literature
From the award-winning author of God's Ear : A "wildly funny, achingly spiritual, profoundly Jewish and feminist" satire of religion and gender politics ( The New York Times Book Review ).
Call Me Ishtar is the outrageous manifesto of a goddess determined to right the wrongs of the three-thousand-year-old patriarchy. She is Ishtar: Mother Goddess, Queen of Heaven, Angel of Death, and Whore of Babylon, and, returning to earth in this most recent incarnation, suburban housewife and sexual subversive.
Gallivanting through upstate New York, Ishtar breaks into a Hostess factory to taint its products, catapults a rock band to stardom via satanic rituals, and rises from the coffin at her own funeral-all to overthrow the worship of phallic gods and resume her former glory in this "bouncy, tongue-in-cheek mythmash of The White Goddess and The Feminine Mystique " ( Kirkus Reviews ).
"[Lerman's] is a unique voice-wildly funny, achingly spiritual, profoundly Jewish and feminist at the same time." - The New York Times Book Review
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