His master's voice. Robert kotlowitz 1st Edition Hardcover
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Robert Kotlowitz, an earthy, poignant, and wryly humorous novel about a Jewish cantor and In the dog days of August 1944, as newspaper head- lines are filled with the War abroad, a fourth term for FDR, and the Orioles' chances of winning, Sigmund R Safer, the music-loving introvert and secretly agnostic cantor of the House of Israel con- gregation, has problems closer to home A gentle "greenhorn from the Old Country," Sigmund is plagued by everything from the rebels in his congrega- tion, who threaten to secede and found a new, less fanatically observant congregation of their own to his friend Barney Fribush, the raunchy, bullying treasurer of the congregation and the largest manufac- turer of men's rubber heels on the Atlantic seaboard, who fancies Sigmund's wife to a sudden hormonal upheaval in his choir of adolescent boys as they rehearse for their annual performance during the High Holidays to his racy teenage daughter, whose Italian boyfriend, thank God, is still a secret to his divided congregation in 1940s Baltimore Sigmund's congregation Can the House of Israel stand a little disruption Or can the music, as Sigmund hopes, unman the congre-
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