The Promise [FIRST EDITION] [VINTAGE 1969]

Potok, Chaim

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1969

About this Item

Fine condition black cloth boards with an embossed front cover decoration and bright gold spine lettering contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Book by Chaim Potok; Preliminary Page Note by Chaim Potok; Author Dedication; and Preliminary Page Quotes. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). "Just as The Chosen summoned up the depths of the commitment that loving fathers make for their sons, Chaim Potok's new novel evokes the promise that the young make to themselves, to their own lives - the obstacles life automatically interposes, and the strength, the intelligence, the daring that must constantly be brought to bear if the promise is to be kept. They are young men now, the two boys whose growing up in Brooklyn, in a traditional world of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews, was told in The Chosen - and for each of them, as Chaim Potok's new novel opens, the commitment he has made both th the tradition that nurtured him and to the future he has chosen hangs in the balance. Reuven Malter, the gentle scholar's son, now studying to be a rabbi, 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. The driven, magnetic Danny Saunders, who tore himself away from his destiny as a spiritual leader of the Hasids, is about to risk the brilliant beginnings of his career as a clinical psychologist - gambling his strange intuition against the established "orthodox" treatment - to save a young boy's sanity. In scene after wonderful scene the novel follows the two young men through the season of their testing and moves toward its superb double climax: Reuven before the examiners who would deny him his ordination; Danny outside the locked room in which his patient must undergo the radical therapy he has invented - the agonizing and dangerous "therapy of silence." "We rejoice and even weep a little," The New York Times Book Review wrote of The Chosen, "and long afterwards it remains in the mind and delights." So too will The Promise. It is flooded with the same goodness and feeling, the same power to convey the life of the spirit that made Chaim Potok's first book one of the most deeply loved novels of recent years. It will, we believe, give equally profound and enduring pleasure." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Promise [FIRST EDITION] [VINTAGE 1969]
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine