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Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Isaac Bashevis Singer. Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer
	Edited by: Ilan Stavans Library of America ISBN: 1-931082-61-8 Series Number: 149 Product Code: 201584 Price: $35.00
To mark the centenary of the birth of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the sole Yiddish writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize and one of the most influential and beloved Jewish-American authors, The Library of America presents Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer, one of three volumes celebrating Singer's achievement as a master storyteller. Among the 54 works gathered in this collection, which brings together the first four English-language volumes of Singer's stories, is his enduring parable of probity and goodness, "Gimpel the Fool," as well as the disturbing supernatural tales that explore irrational undercurrents of human personality and collective life. Also included are several stories later adapted for the stage and screen, such as "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," "Taibele and Her Demon," and "The Mirror." "Singer casts a spell," writes Joyce Carol Oates. "Open one of his books anywhere, the words leap out with a power that would seem to us demonic if it were not, at the very same time, so utterly plausible."

Isaac Bashevis Singer. Collected Stories: One Night In Brazil to The Death Of Methuselah
	Edited by: Ilan Stavans Library of America ISBN: 1-931082-63-4 Series Number: 151 Product Code: 201600 Price: $35.00
When Isaac Bashevis Singer received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 74, the award crowned an extraordinary career that began in the thriving, contentious literary milieu of Jewish Warsaw in the 1920s and 1930s and continued through Singer;s long residence in New York City. In his last years Singer continued to put together short-story collections in English, drawing from a fund of previously untranslated stories that had appeared in Yiddish newspapers and magazines as well as including more recent work. The resulting array of stories represents the full range of his achievement as a storyteller. As one of three volumes celebrating Singer;s mastery of the short-story form, Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah contains ten stories previously unpublished in English.

Isaac Bashevis Singer. Collected Stories: A Friend of Kafka to Passions
	Edited by: Ilan Stavans Library of America ISBN: 1-931082-62-6 Series Number: 150 Product Code: 201592 Price: $35.00
Isaac Bashevis Singer once claimed that he preferred writing stories to novels because the short-story form brought perfection within reach. The 65 stories gathered here show Singer striving for and often achieving such perfection, crafting tales that fuse crystalline storytelling with an unnerving exploration of erotic passion and irrational desire, family life and religious piety, and fundamental emotions such as shame, lust, anger, pride, and tenderness. Also on display in stories such as "A Friend of Kafka" and "The Adventure" is Singer's shrewd gift as a comic writer, evoking the Jewish milieu in New York and in Warsaw between the wars with a blend of affection and satire. "His driven, mercurial processions of predicaments and transmogrifications are limitless," Cynthia Ozick writes, "a cornucopia of invention."

Isaac Bashevis Singer. An Album

Edited by: Ilan Stavans
Library of America
ISBN: 1-931082-64-2
Product Code: 101618
Price: $12.95

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) is the most famous Yiddish writer of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential and important Jewish-American writer ever. Here, to coincide with Singer's Centennial and the release of Collected Stories, is a useful, handy, and beautifully illustrated guide to the life and work of the Nobel Prize-winning writer featuring contributions from some of today's leading writers.

Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album presents images from the Singer Centennial Exhibition, which will travel around the country throughout 2004. Drawn from the remarkable collection of Singer papers, memorabilia, and artifacts held at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the Singer Centennial Exhibition will visit Massachusetts, Florida, and New York. Serving in part as the print companion to the exhibit, Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album will feature color reproductions of many images—some published here for the first time—as well as detailed captions.

But the Album is more than a companion to the exhibition. It features Singer's brief memoir of his arrival in America, as well as appreciations of and anecdotes about Singer from some of today's leading writers, including Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, Francine Prose, Nicholas Dawidoff, Harvey Shapiro, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others. These writers share personal recollections of Singer, reveal his influences on their own work, and speculate on the secrets of his enduring appeal and lasting legacy.

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