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Set against the starkly beautiful landscape of Cornwall, with its rugged cliffs, ominous moors, crumbling castles and bottomless mines, PENMARRIC is the massive and totally enthralling saga of a family divided against itself.
At the center of the novel, exerting a magnetic, destructive power over generation after generation of the Castallack family, is the InheritancePenmarric, the great house looming over the Penmar lands, stone symbol of the family’s pride and power, and Sennon Garth, the fabulous tin mine, long closed, whose wealth once built the house. It is to Penmarric that Mark Castallack, a proud, strange and sensitive man, sensual yet wedded to his own privacy, brings his bride, Janna.
THE GRANDEES by Stephen Birmingham. This is a history of Sephardic Jewry in America. It is a fascinating history, spiced with gossip and the gentle rattling of family skeletons as, here and there, they tumble out. And through it all emerges a picture of a proud haughty people who have chosen to remain aloof from the hordes of later-arriving Jews from Europe. By the late nineteenth century, for example, the only Jews admitted to such exclusive New York clubs as the Union and the Knickerbocker were the Sephardim. Germans had to found clubs of their own. And the Sephardim have also staunchly refused to be swept along by the vast (and German sponsored) movement of Reform Judaism, preferring to be one of the last handouts of Orthodoxy, with services that have remained virtually unchanged for centuries. Library Hours: Wednesday and Friday, 2 to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 D.m.
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