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Orbit of Darkness
Published in Hardcover by Harcourt (1991)
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MacM's style does not draw you in and it does not repel you. It lists, it describes, and it moves on. His perspective takes in more than the stereotypical "survivor" account--he looks at partisan fighters in the marshes, a family reduced (most of them unwittingly at first) to cannibalism, a Nazi soldier as Berlin falls, fighters in the sewers of Warsaw, functionaries turned documentarians of pornography, and teens who witness from afar a scene that begins "they were shooting the wedding party into a ditch."
This is the part of the array provided by MacM, who later wrote a novelization of the Treblinka uprising, "Village of a Million Spirits." His work deserves attention, for it shows how writers outside of direct involvement with the Shoah can enter into its imaginative possibilities and continue to confront us with the moral and dramatic struggles it keeps raising in the imagination of all of us who grow up in its receding but still chilling shadows.