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This marvelously engaging and pleasurable novel is like a cross between watching a sly Eric Rohmer film about the spiritual crisis of vacation and reading a Jean Rhys interior monologue of a woman in extremis. For all its horrific aspects, it has a steady undercurrent of humor: the comedy derives from showing the precise mechanisms of low self-esteem, rationalization and self-indulgence. A wickedly readable, psychologically astute and drolly knowing fiction.







About the Author :
Tsipi Keller was born in Prague, raised in Israel, and has been living in the United States since 1974. Her short fiction, and her poetry translations, have appeared in many journals and anthologies; her novels, The Prophet of Tenth Street (1995) and Leverage (1997) were translated into Hebrew and published by Sifriat Poalim. (Currently, The Prophet of Tenth Street is being translated into German.) Keller's translation of Dan Pagis's posthumous collection, Last Poems, was published by The Quarterly Review of Literature (1993), and her translation of Irit Katzir's posthumous collection, And I Wrote Poems, was published by Carmel in 2000. Among her awards are: A National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two New York Foundation for the Arts grants, and an Armand G. Erpf award from Columbia University. Her novels RETELLING (2006) and JACKPOT (2004) were published by Spuyten Duyvil.

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This marvelously engaging and pleasurable novel is like a cross between watching a sly Eric Rohmer film about the spiritual crisis of vacation and reading a Jean Rhys interior monologue of a woman in extremis. For all its horrific aspects, it has a steady undercurrent of humor: the comedy derives from showing the precise mechanisms of low self-esteem, rationalization and self-indulgence. A wickedly readable, psychologically astute and drolly knowing fiction.

-Phillip Lopate


Tsipi Keller masterfully presents the story of Maggie, who discovers that Paradise Island is paradise lost when her traveling companion's betrayal leads to her own descent into the underworld of greed and illusion. The glittering casino-island within the island-nearly eradicates the sea. And water, primordial emblem, is the only substance that can break the spell of Maggie's emotional and sexual degradation. Jackpot is a deeply disturbing and haunting novel.

- Jan Freeman


Jackpot is a compelling, shocking novel. The story of Maggie, Jackpot's main character, achieves a Dostoevskian power that unsettles the soul. In Maggie we see reflected our own humanity, vulnerability, and darkness. Tsipi Keller is a novelist whose artistry and vision command our admiration.

-Jaime Manrique


Thought-provoking and oddly entrancing, Jackpot is a novel of particular interest. The genius of the narrative is its vivid and hypnotic prose, which makes the incremental unraveling of the self seem not just plausible but logical. Unsettling and profound.

-Jane Delynn





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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780972066211
  • Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
  • Publisher Imprint: Spuyten Duyvil
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 198
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0972066217
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 263 gr


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