![]() You sort of know the shoreline, and then it fades away. He described the writing process like this: "You're like a navigator without instruments. In the space of a sentence or two, an image of homeless men looking for food abruptly shifts to the crashing surf. Intensely naturalistic scenes that take place on a baseball diamond or in a synagogue give way to an equally vivid memory of a youthful nightmare or Yiddish folk tale. Potok's prose is saturated and dense, with sudden juxtapositions in style and tone. ![]() "If you don't, you're dead in the water artistically," he said. He also helped the late violinist Isaac Stern write his autobiography, My First Seventy-nine Years.īut for every novel that Potok published, he wrote between three and five manuscripts that he discarded. Among Potok's four non-fiction works, Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews, traced Jewish history to the patriarch Abraham 4,000 years ago. ![]() Over 34 years, he wrote 14 books, including three children's novels. While Potok loved teaching, there never was any question as to his true vocation. ![]()
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