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Synopsis
Evoking the terrifying childhood and the seemingly successful adult life of Adam Posner, Rosenbaum reveals, through the haunting cadences of his fiction, that we all remain, however transmogrified as adults, the children we once were. No one underscores this realization more than Adam Posner, determined to climb the proverbial ladder of success, yet encumbered by the psychic screams of his parents and by the memories of a world where the sun never shone. The Adam Posner who emerges from these pages, stumbling from darkness into light, is actually a composite character, a mosaic of a man whose different incarnations overlap to form a textured collage that represents the lives of America's young and affluent Jews. The duality of experiences - the juxtaposition of the jaded, materialistic lives of the young with the wraithlike apparitions of an older, tortured generation - creates a stunning portrait that suggests that the mystery of Elijah the prophet may be slipping from our grasp and that the Holocaust was perhaps just a horrific prologue to the disintegration of the modern Jewish family.
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Review
"Thane Rosenbaum is totally obsessed with the Holocaust. His stories reflect that obsession. They are written with sensitivity and pain." --Elie Wiesel
"Anyone concerned with the decay of Diaspora Judaism should read these stories, for Rosebaum shows great skill and sensitivity in depicting the aftermath." --Henry Roth, author of Call It Sleep
"A remarkable and original collection of short fiction." --The Baltimore Sun
"The nine stories of Thane Rosenbaum's Elijah Visible make for a noteworthy literary debut-not only because they introduce a distinctive voice to American Jewish fiction, but also because they represent a significant shift in how stories of the Holocaust can be told in and for our time." --Sanford Pinsker, The Forward
About the Author
Thane Rosenbaum won the prestigious Wallant Prize for Elijah Visible. The literary editor of Tikkun, he also contributes to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and is the author of a novel, Second Hand Smoke. He lives in New York, where he teaches law and human rights at Fordham Law School.
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- PublisherSMP Paperback
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0312198655
- ISBN 13 9780312198657
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages228
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