Radiance: Ten Stories

Many of the stories in John J. Clayton's Radiance are specifically Jewish, either in family background or religious vision, or both. They are stories of fathers and sons, parents and children, husbands and wives. The stories hover between the spiritual and the psychological, yet they are grounded in painful and joyful reality. Although Clayton mourns what human beings are up against, he finally comes down on the side of faith and hope.