"Man had innumerable chances but was—in the long run—insufficient to God's purpose. He was insufficient to himself."
That theme is variously expressed in Bernard Malamud's extraordinary fable, "God's Grace,"… which manages the rare feat of being a post-nuclear-holocaust story both somber and sometimes very funny….
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