High Crimes and Misdemeanors [Hardcover]

Joanne Greenberg (Author)

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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd; First Printing edition (May 1980)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0575027657
ISBN-13: 978-0575027657
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds

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

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.

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