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His narratives were frequently suffused with references to world mythology and to his own jewish heritage. Moonglow, and the picture book the astonishing secret of awesome man. Jun, 2018 in his new book, chaim saiman points out that this exclusive focus on the precise details of religious practice left the pharisees, the forebears of rabbinic judaism, open to jesuss critique that they mistook the legal trees for the spiritual forest. Michael chabon is the author of nine novels, and a new collection of essays about family life. In his tenth work of fiction, chabon, bestknown for his pulitzer prizewinning the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, draws on his own family history as he imagines the murky origins and.
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