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Amazon.com Review"It had been a Second Coming sky all day, which meant they might be in heaven by this evening," begins Rhoda Huffey's The Hallelujah Side, an unlikely but highly winning coming-of-age tale about faith, fundamentalism, and rock-and-roll. When the longed-for Rapture happens, young Roxanne Fish worries that she'll be going down instead of up. For one thing, she hasn't been saved, in spite of what she tells her Assembly of God parents, and for another, she has discovered a mighty set of rock-and-roll pipes inside her. She also talks to the hedge, whiles away long sermons by drawing big-breasted sinners climbing trees, and squeezes her legs together in church so she'll see the "Northern Lights." But all that is nothing compared to the devil's music. Why, the Fishes aren't even allowed to watch television: Pastor Fish preached against TV as the one-eyed monster, but Brother Ransom needed it for crop news. Corn was going up and down like a yo-yo. You got it all on the Farmer's Report. Then you turned it off, but sometimes Little Richard was too fast for you. When, after years of self-imposed deprivation--including stuffing her ears with Kleenex during hymns--Roxanne meets a young Aretha Franklin and gets the chance to sing backup in one of her concerts, it only highlights the real conflict. "You cannot love the world and be saved too. It is one or the other," Reverend Fish tells his daughter, and Roxanne recognizes the true problem: "Now she knew why God would not save her. For she loved the world and all the things thereof. She loved the bushes and the birds that flew. She loved the Iowa dirt." Rhoda Huffey masterfully evokes that world, down to the last tube of Tangerine Kiss lipstick and can of Campbell's tomato soup. In fact, some of the novel's keenest pleasures lie in its details: Roxanne's personal demon, named Fred; her faith-healing Uncle Roland, who smells like milk and says hello by staring; the Reverend Fish's battered copy of Das Kapital, which he has heavily annotated with Biblical refutations. (Why "For fun," of course.) If the author occasionally draws her comic strokes with too wide a brush, it's a forgivable flaw: this is one religious family that can be made figures of fun without losing their essential humanity. The Hallelujah Side has funny and moving things to say about God and Little Richard--and even in a book full of miracles, that's no small feat. --Chloe Byrne Jewish Humor Central: Tough Guy Actor James Cagney Spoke Yiddish Fluently James Cagney the American actor best known for playing tough guys in gangster films and for winning an Oscar for playing George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy was a fluent Yiddish speaker. He spoke Yiddish in a ... The Wiz - Wikipedia The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls (and others) and book by William F. Brown. It is an urbanized retelling of L. Frank Baum's classic 1900 ... Remembering Leonard Cohen (Continued): A New Yiddish ... Our tribute to Leonard Cohen on Friday was so well received that we got requests for more videos of his songs. We will be posting some of his other works in the future but today we're extending the tribute by ... THE YEARLING - Project Gutenberg Australia Title: The Yearling (1938) Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1896-1953 * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No.: 0301541h.html Edition: 1 Language: English Character set encoding ... IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE - Project Gutenberg Australia Title: It Can't Happen Here (1935) Author: Sinclair Lewis * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No.: 0301001h.html Edition: 1 Language: English Character set encoding: HTML (Latin-1 ... On the Thomas Pynchon Trail -- Vulture August 25 2013 9:10 p.m. On the Thomas Pynchon Trail: From the Long Island of His Boyhood to the Yupper West Side of His New Novel ... By way of Mexico Manhattan Beach the California woods and a ... Leonard Cohen - Suzanne - YouTube Perhaps his most memorable song from Canadian poet/songwriter & performer Leonard Cohen. Cohen specified notably in a BBC interview that the song was about encountering Suzanne Verdal the then wife of ... Theatre dance opera and cabaret reviews The Stage The UKs most extensive reviews of theatre dance opera and cabaret. Read what the professional theatre critics think here. ... Im Going to Pray For You So Hard review at Finborough Theatre London a ... LS2 PAC - Catalog Log in with either your Library Card Number or EZ Login. Library ID (No Spaces!) or EZ Username Last Name or EZ Password. Remember Me Monty Python 's The Final Rip-Off - Ib Ras Linkman: The place is England. The year is 787. Voice: A.D.? Linkman: Of course it's A.D. You don't have to say it's A.D. I mean they didn't have A.D. written on Letts Schoolboy's Diary I mean no one is going to ...
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