[bksvol-discuss] Re: Barbara -- The Promise
- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:13:42 -0800
Please, what is the Fast Submission Option and how was the book prevalidated?
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From: Barbara
To: Book Share
Cc: Carrie Karnos
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 6:39 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Barbara -- The Promise
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
Thanks, for your help.
Barbara
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