God's Grace

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is the most original and imaginative fiction yet produced by one of our best writers. It will come as no surprise to those familiar with Bernard Malamud's stories of fantasy, such as "The Centaur" and "The Jew Bird." This visionary tale with a prophetic warning could have been written only by a superb artist who dares to take risks.
"Of all men Calvin Cohn lived on, passionate to survive. "After the Djanks and the Drushkies do themselves (and the world) in, with their thermonuclear war, God speaks: "They have destroyed my handiwork: the sweet air I gave them to breathe; the fresh water 1 blessed them with; the fertile green earth. They tore apart my ozone, carbonized my oxygen, acidified my refreshing rain. Now they affront my cosmos. How much shall the Lord endure.?" And so the second Flood follows.
Paleologist Calvin Cohn, who had been attending to his work at the bottom of the ocean when the Devastation struck, alone survives. This rabbi's son—a "marginal... Tovább

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- - Grace
is the most original and imaginative fiction yet produced by one of our best writers. It will come as no surprise to those familiar with Bernard Malamud's stories of fantasy, such as "The Centaur" and "The Jew Bird." This visionary tale with a prophetic warning could have been written only by a superb artist who dares to take risks.
"Of all men Calvin Cohn lived on, passionate to survive. "After the Djanks and the Drushkies do themselves (and the world) in, with their thermonuclear war, God speaks: "They have destroyed my handiwork: the sweet air I gave them to breathe; the fresh water 1 blessed them with; the fertile green earth. They tore apart my ozone, carbonized my oxygen, acidified my refreshing rain. Now they affront my cosmos. How much shall the Lord endure.?" And so the second Flood follows.
Paleologist Calvin Cohn, who had been attending to his work at the bottom of the ocean when the Devastation struck, alone survives. This rabbi's son—a "marginal error"—finds himself
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shipwrecked with an experimental chimpanzee capable of speech, to whom he gives the name Buz. Soon other creatures appear on their island—baboons, chimps, five apes, and a lone gorilla. Cohn works hard to make it possible for God to love His creation again, and his hopes increase as he experiences the unknown and the unforeseen in this strange new world. In the end, as Library Journal wrote, God's Grace "makes for a deep and unexpected revelation—splendidly ludicrous, heartach-ingly moving." The novel's fresh and pervasive humor, narrative ingenuity, and tragic sense of the human condition make it Bernard Malamud's most extraordinary book.
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