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Odd Fellows

Tanya Avakian

A Changed Man Francine Prose HarperPerennial, $14.95, 432 pp. ____________________________ In the early 1970s, one might have thought few reviewers would give much space to a first-time novel about wonder-working Hasidim written by an author barely over twenty-five years old. But the time was right. Elie Wiesel had recently published Souls on Fire, Isaac Bashevis Singer wa (...)


 

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