The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Overview

Twenty stories from the Nobel Prizewinner, including "Disguised," a transvestite tale of the yeshiva student whose deserted wife finds him dressed as a woman and married to a man, and the title story, which portrays Methuselah at the age of 969 — "and when you pass your nine hundredth birthday, you are not what you used to be."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374529109
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	05/16/2003
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-91) was the author of many novels, stories, and children's books. His books include The Slave and Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.

Date of Birth:

July 14, 1904

Date of Death:

July 24, 1991

Place of Birth:

Radzymin, Poland

Place of Death:

Surfside, Florida

Education:

Attended Tachkemoni Rabbinical Seminary in Warsaw, Poland, 1920-27

Editorial Reviews

This cunning, pungent new collection of stories from the 1970's and 1980's adds a characteristic twist to the materials of a long career.” —Robert Pinsky, The New York Times

“Highly reccommended.” —Library Journal

“Brimming wwith life.” —John Gross, The New York Times

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