The Instructions Summary
Adam Levin

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The Instructions Summary

The Instructions is the pre-adolescent story of Gurion ben-Judah Maccabee, a precocious and prolix Jewish boy of 10 whose supercharged brain seems to function on caffeine and to focus on endless trivia.

The energy in The Instructions is essentially inward-looking rather than expansionist——the dark self-obsession of the adolescent fixated on his own inward emotional struggles rather than those involving other people, as in marriage, politics, war or the arts...

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