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...became a legend herself. Pursuing what she described as the "downward path to salvation," she experienced in short order an abortion, a marriage that failed to survive the European honeymoon, and a not very passionate love affair, designed primarily to produce the child she had come to long for, Tamar...
With a new interest in salvation, Dorothy Day had Tamar baptized in a Roman Catholic church. "Grimly, coldly making acts of faith," she felt "like a hypocrite." She did not discover what acts of faith meant until she met an obstinate, self-educated French peasant named Peter Maurin. He believed that a Christian bore witness by simple, direct response to the immediate needs of the oppressed...
...five languages, all of which he speaks with a Viennese accent. He is one of the world's few big-city mayors whose name is in the telephone book (his number: 63 3147). And his constituents are perfectly likely to call him at 3 a.m. His wife Tamar is used to such disturbances. She has been married to Kollek for nearly 45 years (they have a son, Amos, 34, a novelist, and a daughter, Osnat, 21, a student at Hebrew University...
This insight concludes Tamar, the story of a man who is late for a dinner party and made to sit with the children, one of whom is a beauty on the brink of womanhood. Exquisite tension, indeed. Elsewhere, a man numbed by tragedy climbs out of himself by scaling an Alp. The purpose: to recapture his humanity "in a crucible of high drama." Humanity sinks in Letters from the "Samantha, " in which the captain of a British sailing vessel rescues a reddish ape from the Indian Ocean but throws it back when the sad, manlike creature disrupts ship...
Indeed, Helprin's purpose seems to be a very refined escapism, and he works as a conjurer, producing wonderful effects through his meticulous modus operendi. At the conclusion of "Tamar," a careful story in which a man recalls his infatuation with a young girl at a London dinner party in the '30s. Helprin eloquently adopts the manifesto of the fantasizer...