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The hidden order that lies at the heart of life's apparent chaos shapes seven stories that explore the intertwining of heart, soul, and intellect and journey through the mysterious maze of consciousness and love. Tour.
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Nine somewhat cumbersome short stories continue the philosophical musings earlier sounded in Goldstein's novels The Dark Sister and The Mind-Body Problem (see Paperback Forecasts this issue). Here, a predominantly intellectual cast explores the relationships between art and experience, intellect and passion, tradition and ambition. Peripheral links among the various entries, meanwhile, reinforce Goldstein's suggestion of discernible patterns within a world of mysteries. Goldstein adopts playful tactics--a hostile academic audience listens as a character from Vanity Fair delivers a paper on fictional realism in "The Predicate of Existence"; a 19th-century governess fashions her own gothic romance in "From Dreams of the Dangerous Duke." Another favored subject--a younger generation's response to its Jewish heritage--is explored from opposing points of view in "Mindel Gittel," told by a refugee from the Holocaust, and "Rabbinical Eyes," related by a rabbi's daughter. In general, however, Goldstein subordinates plot, pacing and character development to exposition of her themes; although she tries out different narrative voices , she achieves spontaneity rarely. Pleasure, for the reader as well as the protagonists, is chiefly cerebral.
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- PublisherViking Adult
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0670846406
- ISBN 13 9780670846405
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages288
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