[bksvol-discuss] Re: Barbara -- The Promise
- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:16:38 -0500
What is the "fast submission option?"
E.
At 09:39 PM 12/7/2008, you 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 <http://us.mc1803.mail.yahoo.com/isbn/0449001164?B=>0449001164
Thanks, for your help.
Barbara
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