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...PAWNBROKER (279 pp.)-Edward Lewis Wallant-Harcourt, Brace & World...
...their torture returns to him. Sol's nights become long, sleepless nightmares; during the day, to the astonishment of his Puerto Rican apprentice, he fumbles through business in a trance, unaccountably appraising brass as gold. In one such August, the pawnshop is robbed; the apprentice-whom Author Wallant. with a disturbingly heavy hand, has called Jesus Ortiz-steps in front of a bullet meant for Sol. In a torrent of long-restrained tears, Sol Nazerman begins the escape from his prison of self...
...first novel, The Human Season, Author Wallant wrote well of another sorrowing Jew. This time the theme is not nearly so fresh. But Sol Nazerman. the erudite Shylock of Harlem, is a creature of fascinating complexity. As the centerpiece of a flawed book, he is that literary rarity-the character whose sorrows seem as real as the reader...
...Human Season, by Edward Lewis Wallant. The author has chosen a dark theme for his uncommonly well-written first novel-an aging plumber's bout with melancholy after the death of his wife...
...Best Reading The Human Season, by Edward Lewis Wallant. The grief of a 59-year-old plumber over the sudden death of his wife is the unlikely subject of this remarkably skillful first novel. With telling economy, Author Wallant suggests the climate of a marriage, the texture of sorrow without sentimentality and the twisting agony of an agnostic Job who cannot tame his rage with resignation...