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Caregiver

Focus On Fiction

`The

Treatment'

The Treatment
(Alfred A.
Knopf; $23) is a
first novel by
Daniel Menaker,
DANIEL
a senior editor,at
MENAK.ER•
Random House
(and for 20 years
before that at
The New Yorker). It is at turns cleverly
comic, frankly sensual, highly sus-
penseful and occasionally disappoint-
ing. But most of all it is ironic.
This is the story of Jake Singer, a
highly secular, assimilated, yet stereotyp-
ically neurotic, unassertive modern Jew.
Jake discovers — through the unique,
overbearing but sometimes strained
character of his psychotherapist, Dr.
Ernesto Morales — that the very mer-
curial randomness of the events of this
world can somehow lead to a counter-
intuitive consideration that the universe
may indeed be run by an Organizing (if
seemingly disorganized) Force.
As Jake movingly observes after the
gripping personal odyssey in which he
finds emotional maturity: "I wouldn't
mind even just believing in the possi-
bility of such a thing. ... That all the
circles broken by death or chance will
someday be unbroken.
A dedicated English teacher, and
later, headmaster, at an exclusive New
York private school, Jake emphasizes
to his students that "people usually
don't think about the accidents that
do so much to determine the course of
their lives."
The engine driving this novel,
pushing both Jake and the plot for-
ward, is the irascible, even brutal,

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Music by
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A poignant, warm
and romantic
play featuring
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virtually omniscient Dr. Morales.
This blunt-spoken, vulgarly sex-cen-
tered "Last Freudian" treats Jake in a
deliberately shocking manner in
order to help his patient adjust to
his world.
With a storyline involving such emo-
tionally charged issues as child adoption
rights; the sad, painful legacy of the
sudden death of young parents; the
tough problems of single mothers; and
the subtle yet provocative presentation
of existential "Great Imponderables,"
Daniel Menaker's book is a serious and
worthwhile contribution to contempo-
rary popular literature.

— Reviewed by Alan Schwartz
Research Director, Civil Rights Division
Anti-Defamation League

Articles
o fFaith'

obert L. Rodin's
Articles of Faith
(St. Martin's
Press; $22.95) is
a small book, but
it packs a mighty
wallop.
Its non-stop
action begins
with a mysterious phone call from
Sean Macguire to his son Danny —
25 years after Sean's supposed suicide.
Asking Danny to accept on faith
the fact that he needs his help, Sean
Macguire warns his son that all their
lives are at stake — including those of
Danny's wife and two children.
When they meet, Sean is carrying
an old canvas sack, from which he
withdraws a shiny dagger decorated in
gold. Danny remembers seeing the
dagger as a child — and his father's
warning never to speak of it.
As a member of the OSS (the pre-
cursor to the CIA) during World War
II, the elder Macguire was privy to
many buried secrets. While on a spe-
cial mission one evening, he and two
other men, led by their commander,
Francis Xavier Laughlin, discovered a
cache of goods that included a meno-
rah, Torah pointers and other articles
of faith.
The men soon realized that the
treasure — much of it in gold —
was covered in the blood of Nazi
war victims.
Among the loot was the dagger
(thought to be the property of