Thane Rosenbaum, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-018490-2
A half-dozen ghosts of famous literary figures return to New York to help unblock a Jewish writer in Rosenbaum's intriguing but undisciplined second novel (after Second Hand Smoke), which begins with the suicide of a pair of elderly Holocaust...
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Thane Rosenbaum, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (354p) ISBN 978-0-06-018816-0
A professor at Fordham Law School, Rosenbaum (The Golems of Gotham
) observes that American culture is enthralled by lawyers and courtroom proceedings, yet Americans distrust lawyers and find the quality of justice in this country deficient. He...
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Thane Rosenbaum, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (205p) ISBN 978-0-312-14325-1
In ""Cattle Car Complex,"" the first of nine interlinked stories in this powerful debut collection, disaffected Manhattan lawyer Adam Posner, a lifelong insomniac and claustrophobic, is stricken with paroxysmal rage on an office elevator as he...
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Thane Rosenbaum, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-19954-8
In this well-intentioned but overly emotional novel, Rosenbaum (whose novel-in-stories Elijah Visible won the 1996 Edgar Lewis Wallant Award) focuses on the lives of Holocaust survivors who cannot achieve peace of mind or soul. The narrative follows
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Thane Rosenbaum. Univ. of Chicago, $26. (320p) ISBN 978-0-226-72661-8
The need to punish wrongdoers is natural, and ancient societies embraced, even codified it. Novelist (The Myth of Moral Justice), essayist, and law professor Rosenbaum reflects on this while discussing how fictional revenge sagas are not signs of...
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Thane Rosenbaum. Fig Tree, $24.95 (302p) ISBN 978-1-941493-26-7
In this somewhat convoluted treatise, Touro College law professor Rosenbaum (Payback: The Case for Revenge) argues that certain limits on free speech are not only constitutional and in line with previous case law, but are essential for the...
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