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A Young Calvinist In Love |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Gregory Wolfe |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 1,879 Words, 11,820 Characters |
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PORTOFINO
Frank Schaeffer
New York: Macmillan, 1992
248 pp., $15.00
Frank Schaeffer's Portofino is an understated, painfully funny tale of a boy's initiation into manhood--with a twist. For this novel not only takes us on a witty and, at times, poignant tour through some of the universal travails of a boy's life but also provides a fascinating window on a familiar but little-known American fundamentalism and see it anew, beyond the clichés of the televangelists and the stereotypes of secular liberals.
Schaeffer's mordant but ultimately forgiving viewpoint, born of personal experience, reveals the comedy, pathos, and contradictions of Christian fundamentalism. The result is a novel that is sardonic without being condescending, avoiding the pitfalls of angry, mindless rebellion. P...
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...ision for which the fictional Calvin Becker is searching.
Portofino is not a hatchet job by an angry young man but a quietly understated comedy of religious manners. If it shows us how hypocritical, confused, and disagreeable Christians can be, it also leaves us with the feeling that if we are willing to forgive and to open up our imaginations, the life of faith is still worth living. vbcrlf
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