Serpent

First paperback edition. Jason is a scriptwriter working on a film about Masada the fortress wherea thousand Jews killed themselves rather than submit to Roman... » 

First paperback edition. Jason is a scriptwriter working on a film about Masada the fortress wherea thousand Jews killed themselves rather than submit to Roman occupation in AD73 who doubts a film both popular and honest on the subject can be made.Unfolding over the course of an airline flight alternating between theperspectives of Jason in first class with the film people and his wife Liliain tourist class with their child and intercut with the film script itselfSerpent is a modernist elliptical masterpiece on the complex relationshipbetween life and art. Serpent is the third book in the Catastrophe Practice Series which alsoincludes Catastrophe Practice Judith Imago Bird and Hopeful Monsters. First U.S. edition by Dalkey Archive 90. «