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A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.
de ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Librería
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London, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Jonathan Cape, London, 1974. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the considerably more common US edition. 8vo. 342pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge very slightly dust soiled, else a fine copy in non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper designed by Leigh Taylor, marred by a single tiny tear and with the publisher's laminate lifting in one small area. Twenty-four stories, the Nobel Laureate's seventh collection of short fiction (this one joint winner of the 1974 National Book Award, co-winning with Thomas Pynchon)..
Sinopsis
I saac Bashevis Singer was an author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1978. His novel, A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories won the National Book Award in 1974. Isaac Bashevis Singer is a unique writer whose characters in this multi-storied book are varied and typically intend to do right, but often find themselves unable to understand and decipher the world around them. In the title story, a beautiful and talented orphan is brought up by her pious and wealthy grandfather. In her sleep she hears her dead grandmother telling her that she should look for proof that Christ is the son of God by opening her pillow for the sign. She finds a crown of feathers topped by a cross. She changes religions, becoming a Catholic instead of a Jew and marrying a Polish squire. Later she finds out that it was the voice of the devil who was impersonating her grandmother. Singer is an extraordinary writer who draws the reader in with his beautiful prose and his vivid characterizations.
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- Librería
- Clearwater Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- ARC93079
- Título
- A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.
- Autor
- ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Editorial
- Jonathan Cape, London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1974
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