The Image and Other Stories

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Overview

The Image is a collection of twenty-two entertaining stories that range in time from the old days in Warsaw to recent years in America. The title story is haunted by a unique love that falls like a shadow between a newly married couple.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374520793
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	10/01/1987
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.72(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

Stunning prose - so itchy with barely suppressed desire, so compelling in its physicality, that the page itself seems to heat up as you read it.” —The New York Times

“A generous, vigorous gathering.” —Kirkus Reviews

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