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Chaim Potok: A Critical Companion »
Authors: Sanford Sternlicht
ISBN-13: 9780313311819, ISBN-10: 0313311811
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: ABC-Clio, LLC
Date Published: September 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Sanford Sternlicht
SANFORD STERNLICHT teaches in Syracuse University's English Department and Judaic Studies Program.
Book Synopsis
An in-depth study of the eight major novels by renowned Jewish-American writer, Chaim Potok.
Booknews
Sternlicht (Judaic studies, Syracuse U.) provides biographical and contextual background to mainstream, Marxist, psychoanalytic, feminist, and deconstructionist readings of eight of Potok's best- selling fiction focusing on the clash between American secular values and Jewish ones: from (1967) to (1992). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents
| Series Foreword | ix | |
| Acknowledgments | xiii | |
| 1. | The Life of Chaim Potok | 1 |
| 2. | Chaim Potok's Literary Heritage and Achievements | 15 |
| 3. | The Chosen (1967) | 29 |
| 4. | The Promise (1969) | 49 |
| 5. | My Name Is Asher Lev (1972) | 73 |
| 6. | In the Beginning (1975) | 87 |
| 7. | The Book of Lights (1981) | 101 |
| 8. | Davita's Harp (1985) | 111 |
| 9. | The Gift of Asher Lev (1990) | 125 |
| 10. | I Am the Clay (1992) | 135 |
| Bibliography | 145 | |
| Index | 151 |
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