Kaddish

Rating:
Summary: pompous and undisciplined
Review: yes, mr. wieseltier's family has suffered a great deal. and, yes, mr.wieseltier's underlying motives are no doubt benign. but the pomposity and arrogance of the author veritably oozes through his prose the way sap oozes from a maple tree. even by stodgy washington, d.c. standards, where mr. wieseltier apparently lives, his ability to laud socially acceptable phenomena and disdain socially questionable ones is a sight to behold. to me, as evidenced by this book, this is a man utterly lacking in vision and is at heart and soul an opportunist.