- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Classics; New Ed edition (5 April 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099286459
- ISBN-13: 978-0099286455
- Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 2.3 x 19.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,384,472 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In this masterly collection of stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer once again weaves bewitching fables from seemingly ordinary lives, showing us with subtlety and compassion humanity at its most mundane and mysterious. From modern apartments in Miami to nineteenth-century Polish villages, from bravery in wartime Warsaw to a different kind of courage in Lisbon, these tales span the world and the range of human life.
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'Isaac Bashevis Singer, in his short and humorous tales drawn from an old tradition, celebrates the dignity, mystery and unexpected joy of living with more art and fervor than any other writer...one of the very best storytellers' Newsweek
In this masterly collection of stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer once again weaves bewitching fables from seemingly ordinary lives, showing us with subtlety and compassion humanity at its most mundane and mysterious. From modern apartments in Miami to nineteenth-century Polish villages, from bravery in wartime Warsaw to a different kind of courage in Lisbon, these tales span the world and the range of human life.
'I am grateful to this book for introducing into the twentieth-century novel a quality one associates more readily with nineteenth-century fiction. The quality of nobility' The Times
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Format:Paperback
Isaac Bashevis Singer is a master craftsman of story telling. These short stories are mostly excellent, and he manages to tell his tales in a way quite like no other author I've read. Very evocative and memorable.
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My favorite author; my favorite book . . .
16 Feb 2006
Format:Hardcover
Isaac Singer is a genius. You wonder what does a Yiddish collection of short stories lose in the translation? These are wonderful stories with vivid characterizations, lush imagery, and plots rich with emotion and imagination. My favorite is Passions: a meditation on how man becomes obsessed with something--to the extent of transforming one's life--anything can become a passion. I've read this collection probably four times over the years, and the mark of a great story is how rich and complex it remains upon a second or third reading.
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