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Short Friday, and other stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer
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by Isaac Bashevis Singer, these sixteen short stories
offer a Lucullian feast of passion and laughter, witchery,
chicanery, village politics, vengeance, suffering and
faith.
In his superb and richly evoked characters, his effortless
rendering of place and his fresh, spontaneous prose,
he once again demonstrates his mastery.
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Isaac
Bashevis Singer (1902 – 1991), was a Nobel Prize-winning
Polish-born American author and one of the leading figures
in the Yiddish literary movement. Singer published at least
eighteen novels, fourteen children's books, a number of memoirs,
essays and articles, but is best known as a writer of short
stories, which have appeared in over a dozen collections.
Singer
was born in 1902 in Leoncin, a mainly Jewish village near
Warsaw in Congress Poland, then part of the Russian Empire
To escape from the emerging threat of fascism from Nazi Germany
in 1935, Singer emigrated to the U.S..
This
move separated the author from his first wife Rachel, and
son Israel, who went to Moscow and then Palestine. Singer
settled in New York, where he took up work with a Yiddish-language
newspaper. Singer died on July 24, 1991 in Surfside, Florida,
after suffering a series of strokes.
Source
- Wikipedia
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