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STYLES OF RADICAL WILL by Susan Sontag. 274 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
PICTURES OF FIDELMAN by Bernard Malamud. 208 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith. For 20 years, Robert Farrar Capon, 43, has been an Episcopal priest in Port Jefferson, N.Y., an old Long Island shipbuilding town on the edge of the Manhattan commuter belt. He lives with his wife Peg, their six children, two cats (named Anthony and Bartholomew) and a nondescript dog in a century-old house adjoining his small white clapboard church. At dinner time, the sweet cooking aromas wafting out of the old rectory hint at the true nature of a man who is no ordinary country vicar...
...Israel. To non-Jews, modern Israel is simply a nation with an unusual heritage of religious history. For most Jews, though, it is not only a historical homeland but part of an eternal theological reality, as Heschel argues in a new book called Israel: An Echo of Eternity (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $5.50). Part poetry, part polemic, part plea, the book stems from his response to the 1967 war. Though one of Judaism's most admired religious thinkers-he is professor of ethics and mysticism at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary-Heschel admits that the war profoundly changed...
...DREAM, HIS REST by John Berryman. 317 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...