High Crimes and Misdemeanors [Hardcover]

Joanne Greenberg (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 194 pages
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co; 1st edition (December 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0030449464
• ISBN-13: 978-0030449468
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,624,330 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Contents:, March 14, 2004

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Judy Smith "judylynnsbooks" (jamestown, ky United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: High Crimes and Misdemeanors (Hardcover)

These stories by the author of I Never Promised You A Rose Garden and Founder's Praise all center on a crime...actual or theological...ranging from the serious (extortion, suicide, drug smuggling) to the downright comic. Through all the stories runs a common thread of fantasy, a magical approach to everyday events that readers of Greenberg's fiction will find at once recognizable and fresh.

Among the criminals arraigned in these pages are:

1. a woman whose loss of faith progresses from disbelief in holidays to a denial of the laws of physics...with hilarious and surprisingly poignant results.
2. a group of Talmudic scholars who set out to steal time...and pull off a professional heist.
3. a family whose Jewishness is "exposed" by a neighbor and who find themselves persecuted...in a very unexpected manner.
4.a man who drives an ambulance and fantasizes about a superhuman savior of lives...when his own powers are miraculous enough.
5. inmates of a mental institution who voite in a municipal election...and turn power and sanity inside out.
6. a young man on the run, who encounters a startingly contemporary angel in the desert and learns some truths about himself and what it means to be human.
10 Stories in all.