Shadows On the Hudson - Hardcover

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241139406 ISBN 13: 9780241139400

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 1998

Synopsis

This major posthumous novel was first published in Yiddish in serial form in the late 1950s and is appearing in English for the first time. It tells the tragi-comic story of a circle of prosperous Jewish refugees in New York City in the 1940s. Twice-married Anna Makavar, who escaped the Holocaust with her rich but ultra-religious father, runs off with Hertz Grein, a tormented married man who has known her since she was a girl growing up in Warsaw. This shocking incident sets off a series of events which disturb the already angst-ridden circle of people surrounding her father.

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Review:

"A significant event, a major addition to the English-language Singer oeuvre. It is a startling, piercing work of fiction, a book with a strong claim to being Singer's masterpiece."
--"The New York Times""" "A matchless portrait of human frailty seen from the perspective of a vast compassionate understanding. A major work, from one of the great modern novelists."
--"Kirkus Reviews" "This major novel is a welcome addition to the Singer library."
--"Library Journal"

A significant event, a major addition to the English-language Singer oeuvre. It is a startling, piercing work of fiction, a book with a strong claim to being Singer's masterpiece. "The New York Times"

A matchless portrait of human frailty seen from the perspective of a vast compassionate understanding. A major work, from one of the great modern novelists. "Kirkus Reviews"

This major novel is a welcome addition to the Singer library. "Library Journal""

"A significant event, a major addition to the English-language Singer oeuvre. It is a startling, piercing work of fiction, a book with a strong claim to being Singer's masterpiece." --The New York Times

"A matchless portrait of human frailty seen from the perspective of a vast compassionate understanding. A major work, from one of the great modern novelists." --Kirkus Reviews

"This major novel is a welcome addition to the Singer library." --Library Journal

About the Author:

Isaac Singer was born in Poland in 1904, the son and grandson of Rabbis. He emigrated to the USA in 1935. He wrote many novels, mostly in Yiddish, and in 1978 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1991. According to the Sunday Timeshe was "by far and away the greatest historical novelist of the century, in any language".

About this edition

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0241139406
• ISBN 13: 9780241139400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560