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	Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Film Art MEB Authors Events Distribution Booksense Contacts<>	Settlement by Martin Nakell ISBN 978-1-933132-10-5 $14.00 US \| $17.95 CAN Find the book on Amazon> I very much admire the diversity and accomplishment of Nakell’s writing project. He is certainly a very engaging poet and his prose seems to me a solid complement in every way to that same work. The Library of Thomas Rivka is an impressive and very engaging book! Robert Creeley What gives Mr. Nakell’s fiction its powe is its relentless will to penetrate the mysteries of our lives while at the same time never pretending to know what it does not know. The universe of the story, unlike those of the old traditional well-made story, is suddenly more complex than the reader had realized. Eugene Garber The Library of Thomas Rivka is a unique and fascinating work that could well serve as a template for others. Bookwatch A visit to Thomas Rivka’s library enriches with a secret wisdom. Christopher Reiner Just when you think it’s all been done in the novel, a novel of ideas can still reflect its own rich traditions even as it mirrors them in ways that are meaningful to our contemporary cultural field, where neither people hnor institutions can be explained by naïve looking. Steve Tomasula, The Review of Contemporary Fiction The author of these books is learnéd…even when the book is concerned with domestic and working matters. There is a detached, almost translator-like tone to the telling that never spills into irony or skepticism, although it is poised to do so. Fanny Howe

I very much admire the diversity and accomplishment of Nakell’s writing project.
He is certainly a very engaging poet and his prose seems to me a solid complement
in every way to that same work. The Library of Thomas Rivka is an impressive and
very engaging book!   Robert Creeley

What gives Mr. Nakell’s fiction its powe is its relentless will to penetrate the mysteries
of our lives while at the same time never pretending to know what it does not know. The
universe of the story, unlike those of the old traditional well-made story, is suddenly more
complex than the reader had realized.       Eugene Garber

The Library of Thomas Rivka is a unique and fascinating work that could well
serve as a template for others.    Bookwatch

A visit to Thomas Rivka’s library enriches with a secret wisdom.       Christopher Reiner

Just when you think it’s all been done in the novel, a novel of ideas can still reflect
its own rich traditions even as it mirrors them in ways that are meaningful to our
contemporary cultural field, where neither people hnor institutions can be explained by
naïve looking.   Steve Tomasula, The Review of Contemporary Fiction

The author of these books is learnéd…even when the book is concerned with domestic
and working matters. There is a detached, almost translator-like tone to the telling
that never spills into irony or skepticism, although it is poised to do so.       Fanny Howe