Tiny socialist paradise, to which he has introduced religion, education, the work ethic, leisure time, history and art. From the ''mucilaginous pulp,'' he fashions a herbal medicine. In his dreams, where ''he feared God more than he loved Him,'' he cracks excellent jokes. In his cave, he throws potsĪnd makes masks. In his ''schooltree,'' Cohn teaches Kierkegaard and Freud. To this mixed company will be added an albino ape, some luckless baboons, a child half-human and many reflections on the nature of the universe. Talented ear for devotional music'' George eats the phonograph record of a cantor's singing. He and Buz are joined by some chimps, one named EsauĪnd another, with whom Cohn will cohabit, named Mary Madelyn, who is partial to the idea of love as it is expressed in Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet.'' There is also a gorilla named George, with ''a Calvin Cohn will already have ''monkeyed with evolution.'' Cohn's Island becomes Cohn's Lot. Later on, we will learn Buz's real name, but by then it's too late. Buz can be talked to because a scientist wired him for sound, as well as converting him to Christianity. To talk to, besides God, there is at first only a young chimpanzee named Buz.

The bananas and drink it under a baobab tree. Son of a rabbi - who happened at the time to be at the bottom of the ocean, maybe in a magic barrel.Ĭohn washes up on a tropical island, without insects - ''silence bugs me'' - although the liana vines are arm-thick, the mimosas and the oleanders are doing very well, the bougainvillea is a royal purple, and you can brew beer from WELL, man nuked himself, and God was annoyed: ''They tore apart my ozone, carbonized my oxygen, acidified my refreshing rain.'' And God sent down a Second Flood to drown all the leftovers except Calvin Cohn - a paleontologist and the

The New York Times: Book Review Search ArticleĪugust 23, 1982, Monday, Late City Final Edition

God's Grace by Bernard Malamud