Description: The nationally bestselling author "The Jew in the Lotus" conducts an adventure into the history and meaning of dreams, and reveals the gifts they have to offer.
Brief description:
Roger Kamenetz wrote the landmark international bestseller, The Jew in the Lotus, and the winner of the National Jewish Book Award, Stalking Eljah. He is a Louisiana State University Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies and a certified dream therapist. He lives in New Orleans with his wife, fiction writer Moira Crone.
Review Quotes:
"A profound, affecting and deeply rewarding book from a charismatic teacher." - Jonathan Kirsch, author of A History of the End of the World
"Kamenetz's new book brilliantly combines dream and soul and offers an accessible understanding of both. I highly recommend it." - Brian L. Weiss, M.D., author of Many Lives, Many Masters
"An enchanting and provocative book exploring a subject with profound implications about our very humanity." - Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize Winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
"Kamenetz's fierce honesty and unflinching self-revelation inspire both admiration and awe [...] [A] smart, funny, and revolutionary book..." - Susan Larson, New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Rodger Kamenetz writes in this fascinating book that words, too many words, stand between us and our dreams." - Los Angeles Times
"The History of Last Night's Dream is at once affable and audacious; Kamenetz is a reliable narrator in unreliable territory.... Kamenetz's poetic eye is alive and well." - The Forward
"Rodger Kamenetz's vividly honest and well-reswearched book on dreams in Western culture is extraordinary-- in part for its defiance of genre...Before I read it had heard Kamenetz refer to it as a memoir, but it as much an argument for a paradigm shift in dream interpretation." - The Christian Century
"Kamenetz has written a manual for living the dream of life through the real dreams of an individual." - Andrei Codrescu, NPR Commentator
"[A] powerful and beautifully written book." - Stephen J. Dubner, bestelling co-author of Freakanomics