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| The Elected Member | 
| Author: Bernice Rubens
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 303730
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0349130221
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780349130224
ASIN: 0349130221
Publication Date: March 1, 2001
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In this 1970 Booker Prize-winning novel, Norman is the clever one of a closely-knit Jewish family in London's East End. Infant prodigy, brilliant barrister, the apple of his parents' eyes—until at 41 he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia.
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Tragic fall of a family December 17, 2003
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
Bernice Rubens' novels are difficult to find here in America but are definitely worth reading.
The Elected Member is about the Zweck family, a well-to-do Orthodox Jewish family in England, and how it slowly disintegrated because of their firm hold onto their culture. The novel centers on the eldest son Norman who once was a top lawyer, but had to be admitted to a mental instituion after suffering a nervous breakdown. But what causes his breakdown? Was it his parents who simply hold onto him too tightly? His 2 sisters whom he committed crimes of the heart against? Rubens expertly transport us to the Zwecks' family past and slowly reveals how past mistakes can come back to haunt everyone in a family.
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