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- Title
Land, Legacy, and Return: Negotiating a Post-Assimilationist Stance in Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls.
- Authors
Socolovsky, Maya
- Abstract
Allegra Goodman's 1998 novel "Kaaterskill Falls" drew highly favorable reviews when it was published. Set in the years 1975-78, it tells the story of the upstate New York town of Kaaterskill Falls and the Jewish Orthodox Kirshner community who live there alongside the year-round residents during the summer months. Although favorable, the wording of these reviews indicates the difficulty critics had in categorizing Goodman's work. The "San Diego Tribune" said that to call this a Jewish novel, or even a religious novel, would be to simplify it unfairly. "Kaaterskill Falls" reads like a realist novel from a century or more ago. The book also recalls the tradition of landscape in American writing.
- Subjects
KAATERSKILL Falls (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States; GOODMAN, Allegra; KAATERSKILL Falls (Book); FICTION; LANDSCAPES; AMERICAN literature; JEWISH literature
- Publication
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2004, Vol 22, Issue 3, p26
- ISSN
0882-8539
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/sho.2004.0079