Word: blankfort
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BEHOLD THE FIRE by Michael Blankfort. 397 pages. The New American Library...
...Author Blankfort, who has a daughter and three grandchildren now living in Israel, has poured his heart into Behold the Fire, his eighth novel. His prose at times is hauntingly Biblical. His description of Jewish farmers battling a locust swarm is so vividly and sparely done that the reader can all but feel the crunch of the crawling vermin underfoot. And his protagonists, growing almost against their will to withstand stresses they never imagined, will not be easy to forget...