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Article: The Red Tent.
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- May 22, 1998
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Anita Diamant A Wyatt Book for St. Martin's Press, 321 pages, $23.95 hardcover
The best fiction writers create a world and bathe us in it: its sounds and sights, its language and climate, the intricate relationships among its inhabitants. Anita Diamant has performed this wondrous craft: She has brought forth one of those books that appear effortless precisely because the writer has pondered even the length of the breath between each character's words Reading The Red Tent one can almost hear the bleating of sheep and the beating of human hearts and smell the hot dust on the road.
The world of The Red Tent is the world of the biblical patriarchs, but not ...