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Captives

(2008)
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Daniel Bloom is the kind of person who ends most social gatherings with an alternately raging and despairing conversation about the state of things. He is a screenwriter, a husband, and a father-pretty much in that order.

One day Daniel begins a new project, a revenge fantasy that envisions a nameless assassin taking down the bad guys-the corporate chiefs, the political flacks. And quickly, unmistakably, he realizes that his premise for the screenplay is too good: that he really does want these people to die, that his sense of hopeless impotence has reached a stage of spiritual crisis that's no longer a matter of vapid dinner-party conversation.

Where Daniel goes from there-to Israel and to the hospital, among other destinations-is no mere private odyssey: it is, in its peculiarly and ferociously personal way, the epic journey of our age.


Genre: General Fiction

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