Review: People of the Book, ed. Rachel Swirsky and Sean Wallace

[oldcharliebrown]

"Chabon blends reality and fiction in his fascinating account of how his life was affected by meeting golems [in] "Golems I Have Known, or, Why My Elder Son's Middle Name Is Napoleon: A Trickster's Memoir." The most science-fictional tale, Matthew Kressel's "The History Within Us," explores Jewish and alien concepts of the afterlife 6,000 years in the future. The line between fantasy and scripture blurs in Rachel Pollack's "Burning Beard," which explores Joseph's gift—or curse—of dream interpretation."—Publishers Weekly.

Comments

[mattkressel.livejournal.com]

Well I'm biased because I'm in the damn thing, but I just finished reading it last week and I have to say this was a *fabulous* anthology. Peter S. Beagle's story alone is worth the price of this book.