The Secret Table

By Mark Mirsky

Book Overview

Two novellas of young men embracing a mystical past

In "Dorchester, Home and Garden," a thirty-year-old adolescent, Maishe, returns to a burnt-out Jewish district on Blue Hill Avenue. He is swept up by angels and dropped among the bums of the Boston Common, in a city through which Isaiah and the Greek philosophers wander. "Onan's Child" recasts this narrator as the biblical Onan, who refused to sleep with his wife, Tamar. It is a tale of a Kabbalistic world where angels go astray and the clay of the earth, still warm, cries out for human seed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914590111
• ISBN13: 9780914590118
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: FC2
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.5"