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The Promise / “A superb mirror of a place, a time, and a group of people who capture our immediate interest and hold it tightly.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer Young Reuven Malter is unsure of himself and his place in life. An unconventional scholar, he struggles for recognition from his teachers. With his old friend Danny Saunders—who himself had abandoned the legacy as the chosen heir to his father's rabbinical dynasty for the uncertain life of a healer—Reuvan battles to save a sensitive boy imprisoned by his genius and rage. Painfully, triumphantly, Reuven's understanding of himself, though the boy change, as he starts to approach the peace he has long sought…

GMD	Book
Corporate Author	Fiction
Classification	F-POT-P
Publisher	New York, N.Y., Fawcett Crest, 1969
Subject	FictionSchizophrenia in adolescence--Fiction.Rabbis--Fiction.Psychologists--Fiction.Brooklyn--New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.Jews--United States--Fiction
Description	349
ISBN	0027778005952
URL	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Promise_(Potok_novel)https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10355058?q=the+promise%2F+chaim+potok&c=book&sort=holdings+desc&_=1576480725590&versionId=261871955