"Grossman's essay collection Death as a Way of Life leaves readers with the sensation of having just stepped
off a roller coaster. The wild ups and downs, the raised hopes and shattered dreams of the Israeli-Palestinian
peace process over the past decade have been just that-- a stomach-churning roller coaster ride."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"As the chronicle of an activist author's journey to the edge of the abyss, and of his principled refusal
to hurl himself into it, Death as a Way of Life brings to mind some words from Beckett: 'I can't go on. I'll go
on.'"
--Newsday
Publisher Web Site, April, 2004
Summary
What went wrong after Oslo? How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? How has the violence changed their
lives, and their souls? For the last ten years, David Grossman, one of Israel's great fiction writers, has addressed
these questions in a series of passionate essays and articles, writing not only as one of his country's most respected
novelists and commentators, but as a husband and father and peace activist bitterly disappointed in the leaders
of both sides.
