Greenberg, Joanne (Goldenberg) - Ruth R. Wisse
RUTH R. WISSE
[A] convincing study of an American Jewish family in transition … is Joanne Greenberg's A Season of Delight…. [Mrs. Greenberg] has often written on Jewish subjects, and this latest work is satisfyingly mature.
Grace Dowben, its heroine, has lived for years in the Pennsylvania town of Gilboa…. Though she has other satisfactions and other worries, her own sense of responsibility for the perpetuation of [the Jewish] people runs as the unbroken theme of her life—and of this book. Even her flare-up of love for a young man in town is bound up with the desire to reawaken him as a Jew.
It should be said that the best parts of the book have nothing to do with the Jewish theme. Joanne Greenberg, who is herself a member of a fire-fighting and emergency-rescue team in the Colorado town where she lives, has included in this novel some wonderful descriptions of such a squad, of its members, its functions, and the way it works. Gilboa...
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