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Product Identifiers

PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374506809

ISBN-139780374506803

eBay Product ID (ePID)152875

Product Key Features

Book TitleSlave

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Magical Realism, Literary

Publication Year1988

GenreFiction

AuthorIsaac Bashevis Singer

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-199048

Dewey Edition20

ReviewsA peerless storyteller, Singer restores teh sheer enchantment with story, with outcome, with what-happens-next that has been denied most readers since their adolescence. There is about him a bardic quality that gives The Slave the strength and authority of a timeless folktale., The Slave is a burningly radiant, intensely beautiful book. Singer is answering his age like a prophet., "The Slaveis a burningly radiant, intensely beautiful book. Singer is answering his age like a prophet."--Ted Hughes, The New York Review of Books "A peerless storyteller, Singer restores teh sheer enchantment with story, with outcome, with what-happens-next that has been denied most readers since their adolescence. There is about him a bardic quality that gives The Slavethe strength and authority of a timeless folktale."--David Boroff, Saturday Review, " The Slave is a burningly radiant, intensely beautiful book. Singer is answering his age like a prophet." -- Ted Hughes, The New York Review of Books "A peerless storyteller, Singer restores teh sheer enchantment with story, with outcome, with what-happens-next that has been denied most readers since their adolescence. There is about him a bardic quality that gives The Slave the strength and authority of a timeless folktale." -- David Boroff, Saturday Review, " The Slave is a burningly radiant, intensely beautiful book. Singer is answering his age like a prophet."--Ted Hughes, The New York Review of Books "A peerless storyteller, Singer restores teh sheer enchantment with story, with outcome, with what-happens-next that has been denied most readers since their adolescence. There is about him a bardic quality that gives The Slave the strength and authority of a timeless folktale."- - David Boroff, Saturday Review

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal813.5/4

SynopsisFour years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master's daughter. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can't live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community. Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a Gentile wife and by the difficulties of concealing her identity, Jacob nonetheless stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple.

LC Classification NumberPJ5129.S49K5813 1995