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The Rabbi in the Attic and Other Stories Hardcover – January 1, 1991

by Eileen Pollack (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
Stories deal with a woman whose town has been invaded by rock fans, a young rabbi who has to cope with her ultra-Orthodox predecessor who refuses to move out of the house, and others who must come to terms with the beliefs of their youth
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  1. Print length
    241 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Delphinium Pr
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1991
  5. Dimensions
    1 x 6.5 x 9.3 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0671742604
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0671742607
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Pollack's first collection displays a sure sense of tone, a sensitivity to character and a nice ear for colloquial American English. Her stories focus, for the most part, on young girls growing into womanhood, sometimes pushed through that process prematurely. The tales are most effective when they eschew the more melodramatic possibilities of material that includes madness and a variety of fatal and crippling accidents (inevitable when one of the recurring characters works for an insurance claims adjustor). Her characters struggle to understand a world they are unable to control, a world in which air conditioners fall haphazardly from windows and crush total strangers, and inept young rabbis think they hear the voice of God. Pollack's best work conveys bittersweet truths through understatement and subtle allusions. When she skirts the edge of violence ("The Vanity of Small Differences"), the result seems strained. Much more satisfying are the stories about growing up in a small upstate New York town, in which adolescent terrors are coolly recollected and reflected upon from the distance of adulthood.
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From Kirkus Reviews

A fine debut collection, some stories of which have appeared previously in slightly different forms. Though Pollack writes often from a Jewish perspective, she is concerned more with underlying universal truths than with any particular sectarian position. Her characters, usually women of intelligence and ambition, are infused with moral intelligence that makes them especially receptive to the insights they receive as they go about their lives. In the title piece, a young woman rabbi of firm new ideas and reforming zeal learns tolerance for tradition as she must share her home with an old orthodox rabbi who begins to realize that his own zeal might have been responsible for his wife's death. In two separate but connected stories, ``Neversink'' and ``Hwang's Missing Hand,'' a woman remembers the summer she worked in an insurance business and had an affair with her school history teacher--the significance of which she understands only later in life (only then ``did my errors bring sorrow that couldn't be recalled''). ``Past, Future Elsewhere,'' a Pushcart-winner, recalls the events of Woodstock, a time when the narrator, a local teenager in love with astronaut Neil Armstrong, together with her parents, helped some of the young crowd. It was a time when ``we believed that we could get elsewhere simply by wishing as hard as we could.'' Never sentimental or simplistic, these low-key stories, written with a contemporary flair and humor, are a rich blend of moral and artistic sensibility. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Delphinium Pr; 1st edition (January 1, 1991)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 241 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0671742604
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0671742607
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1 x 6.5 x 9.3 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

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Eileen Pollack

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Eileen Pollack graduated from Yale with a BS in physics and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of the novels The Professor of Immortality, The Bible of Dirty Jokes, A Perfect Life, and Breaking and Entering, which was named a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection, as well as two collections of short fiction, The Rabbi in the Attic and In the Mouth, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. Eileen’s work of creative nonfiction Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull was made into a movie starring Jessica Chastain. Her investigative memoir The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club was published in 2015; a long excerpt appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine and went viral. Her work has been selected for Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, and Best American Travel Writing. Her most recent book, an essay collection called Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman, was published in 2022 by Delphinium Books and received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus. A former director of the MFA Program at the University of Michigan, she now lives and writes in Boston.

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  • Katherine Davis
    5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific reading.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2016
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    I only wish they weren't " short" stories. Ms pollack is very talented and knows the human condition well. I've read "Woman walking ahead" which is historically as well as emotionally engaging. I need more of her offerings!
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  • Jimbob
    5.0 out of 5 stars We All Need a Good Laugh
    Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2014
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    The Rabbi in the Attic is hilarious. I have read it at least three times.
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