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After the
Boston Red Sox defeated the New York Yankees in a dramatic
American League Playoff Series in October, 2004,
I was inspired to write a story against the backdrop of the
Boston Red Sox’s forthcoming World Series victory.
Unbelievably, the story was completed prior to the Red Sox’s
final championship game—a foreshadowing of the miracles
imagined in the story itself.
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In
a twist of the Damn Yankees famous story, this book weaves
together a variety of historic, religious, social, cultural,
and light erotic themes to create a story in which
protagonist, Steve, in league with Leah, the devil's
favorite handmaiden, defeats the devil’s plans to start World
War III and to kill Steve and Nancy, a fellow Red Sox baseball
fan.
During the story, Steve grows in
confidence in both
himself and in his Jewish roots to
not only thwart these diabolical plans, but to free Leah from
the clutches of her master so that she could ascend to heaven
as an angel . Boston's famous
Durgin Park restaurant is
featured in the story.
Educational
Content of Book
A Note about the Historical Content of
this Story
Taking advantage of the fact that Leah in the story has
witnessed over 5,600 years of history, I have woven
various educational and philosophical concepts
throughout the book. Some of these concepts concern the
following: 1) how the religion of Judaism was advanced
by various women in the Bible, including references to
the lives of Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Leah, Dina, Tamar,
Hannah, Miriam, and Esther; 2) the depiction of the Shechinah in a
variety of Renaissance and Catholic art; 3) the roles of
lust and love in a sacred relationship; 4) matriarchy
and patriarchy, and the civil rights of women in Jewish
and early Christian societies; 5) various concepts as
they relate to their roles in modern and ancient
societies, including prayer, justice, love, sex, mass
media, terrorism, and chaos theory; and, as the
proverbial advertising expression goes, 6) lots more!
Andy Plotkin
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