![]() ![]() He had a rapacious hawk’s nose and the eyes of a disgusted eagle. His beard was the only soft thing about him. Michael, the protagonist, is certain that his grandfather’s beard had once been dark, but he only remembered it as “a full, white bush that Isaac Rivkind shampooed with care every third night and combed with love and vanity, so that it lay smooth and soft-looking beneath his tough and swarthy face down to the third button of his shirt. Richly evocative, his novels included descriptive passages like the opening of chapter four in “The Rabbi.” Gordon told the Globe in 2000, when he had finished ahead of authors such as John Irving, Tom Wolfe, and John Grisham for the readers’ choice prize in a contest sponsored by the books publication Que Leer in Spain. “I’m always asked why I’m more popular in Europe. But a year earlier, several of his books were simultaneously on Germany’s best-seller lists, including “Shaman,” which topped all hardcover editions, and “The Physician,” which was No. ![]()
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