RELUCTANT PROPHETHarald Tandrup Knopf ($2.50).
Until he was 32, little doe-eyed Jonah, the Tyre cakeseller, merely talked with the Lord for his own personal pleasure. But when he was ordered on a propaganda mission to Nineveh, the pleasure went out of it. Why pick on him, said Jonah, he wasn't interested in joining the ragged martyrs. He wanted to be good but he wanted to make some money too. He argued, he whined, he got uppity. Nevertheless, said the Lord, you're going to Nineveh, like it or not.
Told by an elderly Danish humorist, this modernized version of the Jonah story proceeds in...
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