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Whistle Stopper - The Chosen
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List Price: $7.99
Our Price: $3.42
Your Save: $ 4.57 ( 57% )
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Manufacturer: Fawcett
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780449213445
ISBN: 0449213447
Label: Fawcett
Manufacturer: Fawcett
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 1987-04-12
Publisher: Fawcett
Release Date: 1987-04-12
Studio: Fawcett
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Summary: Amazing book!
Comment: This book was amongst one of the very best books i have ever read. I honestly must say this books looks so well into the boys lives. The Choosen is amazingly insightful and Chaim Potok just has an amazing way with words. If you're looking for a book that will keep you drawn into the story, this is it. You will want to read it a million times.
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Summary: Masterful.
Comment: The Chosen is a book that will, not only produces a full, rich, exhilarating experience, but stays with you for quite some time. There can be no doubt that this book, along with its author have reached the pinnacle of the literary world and achieved what few books can: Masterpiece. The book's backdrop is set in Brooklyn and the premis is off two young boys who have traveled very different roads, who have seen life through very different views, come together at a baseball game where these two unlikely souls form a close friendship that lasts a life-time and shapes their path toward manhood. The time is set just prior to WWII and Reuven and Danny are Orthodox Jews who will capture your hearts as Chaim Potok pens his masterpiece. This is definetly one book that should find a home in everyone's library.
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Summary: The Chosen Bloom's Guide is Listed Here Incorrectly
Comment: Amazon displays links, editorial descriptions and user reviews for the actual mass market paperback on the web page for the Bloom's Guide. Basically, the Amazon web page for the Bloom's Guide is selling Harold Bloom's in-depth, college level analysis of the book, not the book itself.
Yet, the identical information shown on this product page is displayed on the mass market Chaim Potok book pages - there is no distinction that these are two different books.
This was very misleading to my 15 year old high school student who needed the actual book for a school assignment and we purchased the Bloom version by accident. Bloom's analysis is of no use to her as it is over her head and won't help her achieve what her assignment entails.
Very disappointed in Amazon - I hope they fix this.
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Summary: Worth reading - insightful
Comment: I really liked the historical aspect of the book. Though a work of fiction, it helped me to understand many ideas among the Jewish followers. A little too slow at times for my tastes (particularly the Talmud discussions). A certain amount was necessary to comprehend the background and situation but it went a bit overboard for me.
Overall I thought this was worth the time invested in reading it and I feel like a gained new insight into the Jewish faith and relationships in general.
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Summary: Growing up in NYC
Comment: The chronological lives of Danny Saunders (Hasidic) and Dave Melter (Orthodox) as they graduate high school and then college in Brooklyn. We meet the boys' passionate families, watch their ardent study of Talmud, and perceive the clash between their beliefs and expectations as their steadfast friendship supports them through the late teen years. A peephole into the state of world affairs around 1945 that helps to explain the history of the conflict between Israel and Palestine today.
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Editorial Reviews:
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"Anyone who finds it is finding a jewel. Its themes are profound and universal."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again....
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