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Highlights
- Love and Exile contains the three volumes of the Nobel Prize Winner's spiritual autobiography, covering his childhood in a rabbinical household in Poland, his young manhood in Warsaw and his beginning as a writer, and his emigration to New York before the outbreak of war, with the concomitant displacement of a Yiddish writer in a strange land.
- About the Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-91) was the author of many novels, stories, children's books, and memoirs.
- 384 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Literary Figures
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Book Synopsis
Love and Exile contains the three volumes of the Nobel Prize Winner's spiritual autobiography, covering his childhood in a rabbinical household in Poland, his young manhood in Warsaw and his beginning as a writer, and his emigration to New York before the outbreak of war, with the concomitant displacement of a Yiddish writer in a strange land.
Review Quotes
"An astonishingly intimate record of a writer's inner wanderings." --Marina Hirsch, The San Francisco Chronicle Review
"Isaac Bashevis Singer is exhilerating good company . . . His companions and loves, responding to a master's slightest nudge, bound out of his memory and onto the page." --The New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-91) was the author of many novels, stories, children's books, and memoirs. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.