Meshugah Contributor(s): Singer, Isaac Bashevis (Author), Wachtel, Nili (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0374529094 ISBN-13: 9780374529093 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2003 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Jewish - Fiction | Magical Realism |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 93042785 |
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.08" W x 9.02" (0.84 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Meshugah, Singer's third posthumous novel, is an impressive work which the author published serially in 1981 - 83. It concerns Holocaust survivors in New York in the early 1950s. The story is narrated by Aaron Greidinger, who finds himself inextricably invloved with a group of refugees on the Upper West Side. |
Contributor Bio(s): Singer, Isaac Bashevis: - 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. |