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).
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