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>Thus, Mrs. Bindle, on learning that Ben, her only-begotten son, has
decided to be a Rabbi; what is more, a Rabbi in a small provincial town
in Scotland. Her anxiety proves to be not unjustified, although Ben s
chosen career has its compensations-perhaps Helen, the promiscuous
teenage daughter of his housekeeper; perhaps Simmy, the young wife of an
elderly parishioner; perhaps the whole incident-prone pace of the pawky
Scottish town in which this richly-human story is set.
Chaim Bermant s third novel has all the wit, warmth and colour of its
critically-acclaimed forerunners.> >Thus, Mrs. Bindle, on
learning that Ben, her only-begotten son, has decided to be a Rabbi;
what is more, a Rabbi in a small provincial town in Scotland. Her
anxiety proves to be not unjustified, although Ben s chosen career has
its compensations-perhaps Helen, the promiscuous teenage daughter of his
housekeeper; perhaps Simmy, the young wife of an elderly parishioner;
perhaps the whole incident-prone pace of the pawky Scottish town in
which this richly-human story is set.
Chaim Bermant s third novel has all the wit, warmth and colour of its
critically-acclaimed forerunners.>
