Shadows on the Hudson: A Novel
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Book Description
Although Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated from Poland to the United States in 1935, the circumscribed world of the Polish Jews remained at the heart of his imagination. Beginning with his first major work, Satan in Goray (1935), he used the life of the shtetl as raw material, transforming its folkways, religious practices, superstitions, and sexual habits into superior works of art. From time to ... More
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Publisher | Farrar Straus & Giroux |
Binding | Paperback (27 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 560 |
ISBN-10 | 0374531226 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0374531225 |
Publication Date | 04/29/2008 |
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About Joseph Sherman (Translator) : Joseph Sherman is a published translator. A published credit of Joseph Sherman is Shadows on the Hudson: A Novel.
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8/3/2011 Alan Feller said: A story of confinement and limitation, Singer's post-war New York in "Shadows" does not celebrate hope for the future.
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