The first collection of stories by the celebrated author of The Family Markowitz and the upcoming debut novel, Kaaterskill Falls. Out of print since 1993, this critically acclaimed collection explores the lives of richly drawn characters caught between their own longings and the expectations of family and community.In the twelve stories of Total Immersion, Allegra Goodman views the stresses and ironies of the contemporary (often Jewish) world with a knowledge and self-confidence that are startling. Take Cecil Birnbaum of ...
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The first collection of stories by the celebrated author of The Family Markowitz and the upcoming debut novel, Kaaterskill Falls. Out of print since 1993, this critically acclaimed collection explores the lives of richly drawn characters caught between their own longings and the expectations of family and community.In the twelve stories of Total Immersion, Allegra Goodman views the stresses and ironies of the contemporary (often Jewish) world with a knowledge and self-confidence that are startling. Take Cecil Birnbaum of Variant Text (who will later appear in Kaaterskill Falls) -- Oxford househusband, Shavian scholar and an adamantly observant Jew who remains agnostic. Cecil's children attend a progressive Orthodox day school where they deal with issues of faith (Hashem or Darwin? You decide) and their teachers and parents worry about the dress code (halakhah or Piaget?).Ed Markowitz is in Oxford too in Wish List, at the Wantage Centre where he lectures on Shiite terrorism. He's forced to question the usefulness of his scholarship while Sarah writes her novel, meanwhile playing the role of scholar's wife.The Succession takes place in Honolulu, where the old Rabbi Siegal's treacherous magniloquence makes the congregation think he should retire, yet the younger rabbi is involved in a real estate scare and his ambitious wife has fled.Ginnie of Fait' is from a Filipino family in Hawaii, and she's back from college at Berkeley to attend her sister's wedding. The proud, liberal-minded daughter suddenly finds her family embarrassingly provincial and uneducated, yet when her college boyfriend visits, Ginnie finds him all wrong in her home.Allegra Goodman does notmerely score on such developments as kosher luaus; she uses them to focus and explore the timeless tug between tradition and acculteration in which the assurances of the past sometimes provide striking answers to the questions of the present.
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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, First Printing (Full Number Line). Not price-clipped ($16.95 price intact). Published by Harper & Row, 1989. Octavo. Black cloth over light red boards stamped in orange. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 260 pages. ISBN: 9780060159986. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
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Very Good in Fine jacket. Size: 8x5x1; Hardcover with dust jacket. Stated First Edition. 1st printing (complete number line). Gift inscription; no other markings. Author Allegra Goodman's first book, published when she was an undergraduate at Harvard. Ships in a box. Ships from NYC.
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