Old Love Stories
Old Love Stories
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This classic collection explores the varieties of wisdom gained with age and especially those that teach us how to love, as 'in love the young are just beginners and the art of loving matures with age and experience'. Tales of curious marriages and divorce mingle with psychic experiences and curses, acts of bravery and loneliness, love and hatred.
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Old Love Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
This classic collection explores the varieties of wisdom gained with age and especially those that teach us how to love, as 'in love the young are just beginners and the art of loving matures with age and experience'. Tales of curious marriages and divorce mingle with psychic experiences and curses, acts of bravery and loneliness, love and hatred.
Makes most practitioners of the art of fiction look like singers with only one song * Guardian *
His storytelling powers are so immense, so natural.. He has more creative confidence than any living writer * Financial Times *
Whatever region his writing inhabits, it is blazing with life and actuality -- Ted Hughes * New York Review of Books *
Isaac Bashevis Singer, in his short and humorous tales drawn from an old tradition, celebrates the dignity, mystery and unexpected joy of living with more art and fervor than any other writer... one of the very best storytellers * Newsweek *
His storytelling powers are so immense, so natural.. He has more creative confidence than any living writer * Financial Times *
Whatever region his writing inhabits, it is blazing with life and actuality -- Ted Hughes * New York Review of Books *
Isaac Bashevis Singer, in his short and humorous tales drawn from an old tradition, celebrates the dignity, mystery and unexpected joy of living with more art and fervor than any other writer... one of the very best storytellers * Newsweek *
Issac Bashevis Singer was born in Poland in 1904, and emigrated to the United States in 1935, shortly after his first novel, Satan in Goray, had been published in instalments. In 1943 he became a US citizen, but he continued to write almost exclusively in Yiddish, personally supervising the translation of his works into English. In 1978 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Issac Bashevis Singer died in Florida in 1991.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780099286462 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099286467 |
| Title | Old Love Stories |
| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2001-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |