Passions - Softcover

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099286459 ISBN 13: 9780099286455

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2001

Synopsis

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

Synopsis:

In his masterly collection of stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer once again weaves bewitching fables from seemingly ordinary lives, showing us humanity at its most mundane and mysterious. From modern flats in Miami to 19th century Polish villages these tales span the world and range of human life. Nobel prize-winning author.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099286459
• ISBN 13: 9780099286455
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288