[bksvol-discuss] Re: Barbara -- The Promise
- From: Barbara <barbarab65@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:06:32 -0800 (PST)
Thanks! Please, let me know what is wrong with it.
Barbara
--- On Sun, 12/7/08, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Barbara -- The Promise
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 11:03 PM
I'll look at it, Barbara. :-)
Judy s.
Barbara wrote:
> I just submitted /The Promise. /First, I submitted it using the Fast
> Submission Option and the administrator was unable to process it because
> the file had an error -6 associated with it. The book is prevalidated.
> Could anyone, please, figure out what is wrong with the file so that it
> can be added to the collection. It is one of the best novels I have read
> all year:
>
> Long Synopsis:
>
> Long Synopsis: Just as Chaim Potok in /The Chosen/ had examined the
> depths of the commitment that loving fathers made to their sons, this
> author in /The Promise/ evokes the promise that young adults make to
> themselves and to their own lives. The reader identifies with the
> characters in /The Promise/ as they face their obstacles through
> strength, intelligence, and daring. Specifically, previously, in /The
> Chosen/, the two boys, Reuven Malters and Danny Saunders who grew up in
> Brooklyn New York as Orthodox and Hasidic Jews, respectively, in /The
> Promise/ are portrayed as young adults who struggle for their places in
> the adult society. At this stage of their lives, these young men figure
> out how their beliefs that they received from their fathers mesh with
> their current realities. Reuven and Danny, in their struggle for
> integrity and individuation make life choices that affect their destinies.
> Specifically, Reuven, the gentle Orthodox Jewish, scholar's son, is
now
> studying to be a rabbi. Reuven is fiercely confronted and challenged in
> his vocation by a great but unbending teacher – the sarcastic,
> terrifying Rav Kalman, who defends unmitigated Orthodoxy with the same
> ruthlessness with which he fought for survival in the Nazi death camps.
> Reuven argues his heretical points before Rav Kalman and the other
> examiners who could prevent Reuven from becoming ordained as a rabbi.
> Likewise, Danny, the son of a prominent Hasidic leader, at the close of
> /The Chosen,/ forsook his destiny by not following his father to become
> the next spiritual Hasidic leader, in /The Promise, /risks his brilliant
> beginning of his career as a clinical psychologist. Danny gambols his
> strange intuition against the established "orthodox" treatment
to save
> Michael, a troubled young adolescent from having to be permanently
> institutionalized because of anti-social behavior. Danny asserts his
> autonomy by having Michael undergo the radical, potentially dangerous
> therapy of silence which Danny had invented based upon his experience of
> growing up with little emotional communication with his father. In the
> end, Danny and Reuven emerge as authentic, young adults with beliefs and
> subsequent actions that are both similar and dissimilar from their
fathers.
>
> The ISBN is not in the book so I got it from the online ISBN Directory.
> The ISBN is 0449001164
<http://us.mc1803.mail.yahoo.com/isbn/0449001164?B=>
>
> Thanks, for your help.
>
> Barbara
>
>
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