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Totempole is Sanford Friedman’s radical coming-of-age novel, featuring Stephen Wolfe, a young Jewish boy growing up in New York City and its environs during the Depression and war years. In eight discrete chapters, which trace Stephen’s evolution from a two-year-old boy to a twenty-four-year-old man, Friedman describes with psychological acuity and great empathy Stephen’s intellectual, moral, and sexual maturation. Taught to abhor his body for the sake of his soul, Stephen finds salvation in the eventual unification of the two, the recognition that body and soul should not be partitioned but treated as one being, one complete man.
About the Author
Sanford Friedman was an American novelist. After graduating from the Horace Mann School and the Carnegie Institute of Technology, he was stationed as a military police officer in Korea, earning a Bronze Star. He began his career as a playwright and theater producer, and was later a writing instructor at Juilliard and SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders). “Ocean,” a chapter fromTotempole, was serialized inPartisan Reviewin 1964 and won second prize in the 1965 O. Henry Awards.Totempole(1965) was followed by the novelsA Haunted Woman(1968),Still Life(1975), andRip Van Winkle(1980). At the time of his death, Friedman left behind an unpublished manuscript for the novelConversations with Beethoven.
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