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In Days of Awe
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991 "Jewish Joe Singer" had everything you dream about: star pitcher in the bigs, happily married, hero to kids. Then he is implicated with gamblers, suspended indefinitely from baseball, abandoned by his wife and hated by the fans, young and old alike. During the Days of Awe, the week between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Joe begins the slide home towards his own redemption as he tries to make peace with the God of Jewish athletes and his own father. During the Days of Awe, which fall between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Jews ask forgiveness from those they've sinned against. Nearly everyone in Goodman's immensely appealing third novel wants forgiveness, including Joe Singer: "born to a boy's adventure tale, he'd landed ass-up in tragedy.'' - Publishers Weekly In Days of Awe can be purchased at the links below. Please be aware most copies available are secondhand. |
In 2024 Eric Goodman released Curveball, a sequel to In Days of Awe, taking place some 25-years later.
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This is a novel about redemption and about being a Jew. The hero, disgraced pitcher Jewish Joe Singer (he is accused of throwing a game), is trying to atone for his betrayals--of his father, of the women in his life, of all Jews (who have precious few Jewish athletic heroes), and of baseball. Disregarding the fact that he is being stalked by the murderer of a former lover, he works with runaway youths and campaigns publicly for gun control. He also tries to obtain the forgiveness of the commissioner of baseball--who is less forgiving than God.
- Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Univ. Lib., Davenport, Ia. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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ERIC GOODMAN
Eric Goodman is a novelist, journalist and book doctor. Author of six novels, teacher at the Iowa Summer Writing Professor, and retired professor of English at Miami University. |
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