Sarah: a Novel.SARAH Sarah or Sarai: see Sara. Sarah (flourished early 2nd millennium BC) In the Hebrew scriptures, the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. She was childless until age 90. : A NOVEL. (Canaan Trilogy, book one.) Marek Halter. 2004. Read by Bernadette Dunne. 8 cds. No time listed. Books on Tape. $81.00. 1-4259-0017-5. Vinyl; plot note. A Ranging successfully from young girls and boys to mature men and women. Dunne's excellent fully voiced narration details a highly imaginative account of when Abram met Sarai. It begins with 12year-old Sarai, daughter of a wealthy Sumerian in the city of Ur, experiencing her first menstrual period and being immediately readied for marriage. Appalled by the sight of her boastfully arrogant groom, she flees her father's palace. Frightened and alone, she is rescued by handsome nomad nomad (nō`măd'), one of a group of people without fixed habitation, especially pastoralists. (Some authorities prefer the terms "nonsedentary" or "migratory" rather than "nomadic" to describe mobile hunter-gatherers. Abram, whose tribe is camped nearby. They fall in love, The next day, however, she is found by soldiers and forced to return home. Sarai consults an herbalist herb·al·ist n. 1. One who grows, collects, or specializes in the use of herbs, especially medicinal herbs. 2. See herb doctor. who gives her substances to stop her menstrual flow menstrual flow Menstrual discharge, period Gynecology The vaginal bleeding that occurs monthly from menarche to menopause, which lasts for 2–7 days of a discharge averaging 60–70 mL. See Menstruation. (a clever way to explain her future barrenness). Since she is then useless as a wife, she becomes a high priestess of Ishtar. Naturally, she is again rescued by Abram, becomes his wife, remains childless. and so on, loosely following the Old Testament account. Written like a popular bodice-ripper novel, the book includes many panting panting rapid, shallow breathing, a characteristic heat-losing reaction in dogs; represents an increase in dead-space ventilation resulting in heat loss without necessarily increasing oxygen uptake or carbon dioxide loss. sex scenes, furious jealousies, endless rantings about an empty womb. and paeans to Sarai's perfect beauty. Lushly detailed and fast moving, it is fine for romance fans, but not for Bible scholars. Pat Dole, Richmond, VA |
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