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Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) (1991), Hardcover, 217 pages
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Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated to New York from Poland in 1935 and found work with the Jewish Daily Forward. Author of many novels, collections of short stories, and books for children, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.
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This was a weird one; engaging character study of one man and his most intimate thoughts - Singer does a great job of furrowing inside the brain of a man with dubious morals and a streak of selfish, brutish (and yet sometimes self-aware) misogyny. Portrays the see-saw motion of his consciousness
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and his struggles with his guilt (in the form of faith) with applomb. Ends too quickly, without much revelation, in a manner that doesnt feel intended. Still worth a read if interested in Jewish fiction. Show Less
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0374255113 / 9780374255114