📚  Isaac Bashevis Singer & A Theft 1st ed Saul Bellow FREE Shipping

📚 Isaac Bashevis Singer & A Theft 1st ed Saul Bellow FREE Shipping

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📚  Isaac Bashevis Singer & A Theft 1st ed Saul Bellow FREE Shipping

📚 Isaac Bashevis Singer & A Theft 1st ed Saul Bellow FREE Shipping

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📚 A distinguished and uniquely valuable 2-book bundle pairing the collected stories of one Nobel Prize laureate with a novella by another — both giants of Jewish American literature and two of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Isaac Bashevis Singer and Saul Bellow together represent the absolute pinnacle of the Jewish American literary tradition, and this pairing of Singer's monumental collected stories with Bellow's late novella offers an extraordinary window into the richness, complexity, and depth of that tradition. This is an essential and deeply rewarding pairing for lovers of serious literary fiction, Jewish literature enthusiasts, short story collectors, university literature students, and anyone building a canonical American literature library anchored by Nobel Prize winners.

Books Included in This Lot (as shown in photo):

  • The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer (Hardcover, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature) — The magisterial one-volume collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer — Nobel Laureate, master of the Yiddish short story, and one of the supreme storytellers of the 20th century. Drawing on the vanished world of Eastern European Jewish shtetl life, the immigrant experience in America, and the eternal themes of faith, desire, the demonic, and the divine, Singer's stories are among the most richly imagined, emotionally resonant, and technically perfect in all of world literature. This handsome hardcover collected edition is the definitive one-volume Singer short fiction reference and a cornerstone of any serious literary library.

  • A Theft: A Novella by Saul Bellow — A taut, psychologically penetrating, and characteristically brilliant late novella by Saul Bellow — Nobel Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and the dominant figure of postwar American fiction. A Theft focuses on Clara Velde, a successful New York businesswoman whose stolen emerald ring becomes the catalyst for a searching examination of love, identity, class, and the moral life in contemporary America. Compact, intense, and unmistakably Bellovian in its intellectual energy and verbal brilliance.

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