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The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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#3290 of 8,085 books · #1629 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (1989).

Twenty stories from the Nobel Prizewinner, including "Disguised," a transvestite tale of the yeshiva student whose deserted wife finds him dressed as a woman and married to a man, and the title story, which portrays Methuselah at the age of 969 -- "and when you pass your nine hundredth birthday, you are not what you used to be."

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-13
9780374135638
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Jewish life and folkloreIdentity and disguiseMortality and aging

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