God's Grace | Social Concerns
In 1982, the same year that Bernard Malamud published his exuberant fantasy, another book stirred the public consciousness. Although outwardly it did not much resemble God's Grace, on a deeper level both could have been written by the same person. In the nonfictional The Fate of the Earth, Jonathan Schell (also a Jewish writer) inventories the genocidal aftereffects of a total nuclear exchange. "It may be one of the most important works of recent years," Walter Cronkite praised it, adding: "there still may be hope to save our civilization." With austere and unflinching detail...
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