Ishmael A SELFPORTRAIT Author:Christopher Davis Ishmael and Hagar wander in the wastes of Beersheba and find a fallible God: fable and metaphor. A short, intense, poetic-rhapsodic novel;it is remarkable this portrait can be contained in the frame of a brief book also filled with other rich portraits;a book of beauty and fascination. — The New York Times Book Review A strong and blazin... more »g book.