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 | | In the first story, an orthodox Russian Jew revokes a contract he had made with God, becomes rich, then on making a new contract with the help of some rabbis, is struck dead. |
 | | This is most obvious in the first story, 'A Contract with God,' which wrestles with the divine itself. |
 | | In 'Contract' his depictions of the religiously observant as slouching, hairy old men, and of the apostate real estate baron as a jowled figure with a stupid blonde girlfriend, suggest that this God fellow attracts a fairly degenerate crowd, and that we might be better off keeping our distance. |
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