Ishmael — Christopher Davis

Ishmael and Hagar wander in the wastes of Beersheba and find a fallible God: fable and metaphor. A short, intense, poetic-rhapsodic novelit is remarkable this portrait can be contained in the frame of a brief book also filled with other rich portraits . . . a book of beauty and fascination. -The New York Times Book Review A strong and blazing book. -Muriel Rukeyser