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Isaac Bashevis Singer : an album / edited by Ilan Stavans ; biographical commentary by James Gibbons.

LIBRA Special PJ5129.S49 Z4628 2004
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Contributor:
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Biographies.
  • Anecdotes.
Penn Provenance:
  • Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Other Title:
Singer : an album
Place of Publication:
New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2004]
Summary:
Stavans follows the course of a remarkable literary life, from the shtetls of Poland to the immigrant communities of New York to international acclaim for one of the greatest and most influential Jewish-American writers.
Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • Krochmalna Street
  • A young writer in Warsaw
  • "Greenhorn in sea gate : my first steps in the golden land"
  • Struggling with America
  • Breakthrough
  • American lights, American shadows
  • Making it
  • The prize
  • "It always had to do with his writing"
  • The achievement of Isaac Bashevis Singer : a roundtable discussion.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-125).
Other Format:
Online version: Isaac Bashevis Singer.
ISBN:
  • 1931082642
  • 9781931082648
OCLC:
54081866
Online:
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