Ishmael

About the Book

Ishmael and Hagar wander in the wastes of Beersheba and find a fallible God: fable and metaphor.

“A short, intense, poetic-rhapsodic novel…it is remarkable this portrait can be contained in the frame of a brief book also filled with other rich portraits…a book of beauty and fascination.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“A strong and blazing book.”
—Muriel Rukeyser

About the Author

Christopher Davis is the author of ten novels, two books of non-fiction, a children’s book, two plays, and numerous short stories and essays. His novel, A Peep Into the 20th Century was a National Book Award nominee. In 1991, he received the Career Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He is also a sculptor.