Robert Cohen begins his
career with a very ambitibus and im-
pressive novel. The Organ Builder is the
story of a dour young lawyer, Hesh
Freeman, who gives up his place in the
world in order to contend with the space
in himself that isolates him from others.
This giving up takes the form of a quest,
actually two quests. The first involves a
reluctant journey to the Southwest: to a
nursing home outside Santa Fe where his
alcoholic mother, now terminally ill,
resides; then to Los Alamos where his
father was employed as a nuclear physi-
cist before he disappeared twenty years
ago. The second quest is contained in the
narrative Hesh writes of his journey, not-
ably his effort to end his isolation by
allowing his imagination to inhabit other
lives. In time, voices come to him, prin-
cipally those of his parents, telling of how
the experience of developing the Atom
bomb shattered their marriage.
When we first meet him, Hesh Freeman
seemingly is the last person to get in-
volved in such mailers. He closed the
book on his parents long ago, even
changed his name from Friedmann, to
take up his own life by his own lights.
Except that neither has worked out too
well. He has a broken marriage, a
tenuous relationship with his young son,
and a future as a lawyer that he suspects
is downwardly mobile, despite the
patronage of a senior pa,rtner in his firm,
the omnivorous Charlie Goldwyn, a role
model for precisely what Hesh fears he
secretly wants to become.
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