Nobel Prize Lit: ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER—Passions—HC—“Unlike anyone”

Description: • For your consideration: • A First Edition, First Printing in HARDCOVER of: • “PASSIONS: Stories” (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Edition) • BY ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER • WINNER, 1978, of the NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE • “The wonderful, wonderful world, a terrible and beautiful world, of ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER, bless his name! One hardly know where to begin, whether to sing, dance or shout.” —HENRY MILLER • “If only he were left writing in Yiddish it would be an important literary language. He is certainly one of the most remarkable Author authors who ever lived.” —KENNETH REXROTH • “SINGER is a writer in the great tradition: a man of dignity, humility, the broadest intelligence and extraordinary dedication to the act of writing…. A true and important literary artist lives among us.” —JOSEPH EPSTEIN, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD • “SINGER is distinctive and original.” —JOYCE CAROL OATES • “His style is remarkable, utterly unlike any of the others and surpassed by none.”—HAROLD BLOOM • “Simply as a literary performer he has few peers among living writers…. Everything springs to life, everything trembles with the breath of actuality.” —IRVING HOWE, COMMENTARY • “SINGER is a genius. He has total command of his imagined world.” —THE NEW REPUBLIC • “An artist and transcendent inventor, not a curator…. An American master.”—CYNTHIA OZICK • “One of the great American writers of the twentieth century.” —JONATHAN ROSEN, THE NEW YORKER • “An extraordinary writer.”—ALFRED KAZIN • “ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER, in his short and humorous tales drawn from an old tradition, celebrates the dignity, mystery, and unexpected joy of living with more art and fervor than any other write alive.” —PETER PRESCOTT, NEWSWEEK • “One of the most inventive and captivating voices of the 20th century.” —JEFF SIMON, BUFFALO NEWS • “A master storyteller.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL • “The greatest living storyteller.” —MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH • “He has to be considered among the really great living writings, on several counts.... His work is not discoursive, or even primarily documentary, but revelation…. Whatever region his writing inhabits, it is blazing with life and actuality.”—TED HUGHES, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (1965) • “Some of the liveliest fiction that is now being written in America.”—ARTHUR R. GOLD, BOOK WEEK • “One of the best writers of fiction now in America.” —WILLIAM BARRETT, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY • “It is hardly news that ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER is one of America’s finest writers.” —DAVID McCULLOUGH • “The lucid complexity of his storytelling is still startling—his blend of folktale mysticism and urbane cosmopolitanism, ironic humor and tragic fatalism, retains its ability to shock, while his tales of exile and assimilation still haunt.” —BOSTON GLOBE • “His energetic prose, his exuberant imagination, his ability to make familiar plots yield an endless supply of new twists—all are joyously undiminished.” —MICHIKO KAKUTANI, NEW YORK TIMES • “He pours out an almost MOZARTIAN wealth of suggestive detail, and he can be funny or poignant, or both together, as the need arises.” —MARTIN KIRBY, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER • “SINGER’s work is not cosmic pessimism…but an engagement with pessimism: he explores what it’s like to decide to both see and not see the darkness.” —DAMION SEARLS, LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS • “One comes away from his books with their grotesque people and events, their whiff of the grave and of the diabolic, with a sense of optimism.” —JOYCE CAROL OATES, II • “To read him for the first time is to enjoy one of the extraordinary literary experiences of our time.” —CATHERINE B. HUGHES • “It becomes obvious that SINGER is more than a writer; he is a literature.” —STANLEY EDGAR HYMAN, THE NEW LEADER • “And what a short story writer he was. …SINGER is indeed BOCCACCIAN in his exuberance, facility and invention. Rejecting modernism with its deliberate difficulties and programmatic experimentation, he remained faithful to the older pleasures of character and plot. SINGER can get a story going in no time flat, conjure characters so vivid you feel as if they're sitting next to you, pour forth an endless supply of situations and surprises. Some of his stories are mere trifles…but many more are enigmatic or mordant or sly, hauntingly strange or piercingly sad.” —WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ, NEW YORK TIMES (2004) • “Sparkling and triumphant, ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER’s stories are filled with wonder, gratitude, humor, irony and a wry eroticism that manages to exalt the pleasures of the flesh and the soul at the same time.” —JONATHAN YARDLEY, THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD• “Makes most practitioners of the art of fiction look like singers with only one song.” —THE GUARDIAN (UK) • “SINGER is a genius. He has total command of his imagined world.” —THE NEW REPUBLIC • “SINGER takes his place with the epic storytellers, transcending geographical and chronological boundaries.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (1957) • “SINGER's mastery is in the depiction of the grotesque side of humanity…it is clear that he is a writer of far greater than ordinary powers.”—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (1960) • “If SINGER's work can be said to have a single unifying theme, it may be something like this: Don’t understand the world, or yourself, or anyone else, too quickly. No matter how much you think you know, there is more, always more.”—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (1969) • “The very best of the stories seem permanent.” —HAROLD BLOOM, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (2010) • “His stories offer no ‘epiphanies'’ and no pious resolutions; no linguistic circumscriptions or HEMINGWAYESQUE self-deprivations. Their plenitudes chiefly serve undefended curiosity, the gossip's lure of what comes next. SINGER’s stories have plots that unravel not because they are ‘old-fashioned’—-they are mostly originals and have few recognizable modes other than their own—but because they contain the whole human world of affliction, error, quagmire, pain, calamity, catastrophe, woe. Things happen; life is an ambush, a snare; one’s fate can never be predicted…. There are whole fistfuls of masterpieces in this one volume [COLLECTED STORIES]: a cornucopia of invention.”—CYNTHIA OZICK, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (1982) • “Through the twenty stories [in PASSIONS], SINGER continues to evolve his characters with the sustained scrutiny of kinship and a candlelit intimacy. Physical presences, speech and circumstances flicker into being as sharply as that cosmic instant in each tale.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS • “It is quite possible that hell is made up of yearning. The wicked don’t roast on beds of nails, they sit on comfortable chairs and are tortured with yearning.”—ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER• “Modern man was as fanatic in his nonbelief as ancient man had been in his faith.” —ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER • • For other details about this book, please see below. •TITLE: “PASSIONS: Stories”AUTHOR: ISSAC BASHEVIS SINGER TRANSLATOR: JOSEPH SINGER, OTHERS TYPE: HARDCOVER PAGES: 278 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Farrar, Straus, Giroux (New York), 1979 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement, “First Printing, 1979” NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition. ISBN: 0-374-22993-7 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD.Price ($8.95) is uncut. Corners on rubbed/scuffed. There’s also scuffing near the top corner on front that has caused a few small spots of paper-loss. Faint age-toning frames DJ (visible in white areas) but DJ is clean with bright imagery & lettering. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.) 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