ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER—Yentl the Yeshiva Boy—Antonio Frasconi (art)

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A First-Edition HARDCOVER of: • “YENTL THE YESHIVA BOY” (FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 1983) (HARDCOVER, First Edition, First Printing) • BY ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER, WINNER (1978), NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE • “SINGER is distinctive and original.” —JOYCE CAROL OATES • “His style is remarkable, utterly unlike any of the others and surpassed by none.”—HAROLD BLOOM • “An artist and transcendent inventor, not a curator…. An American master.”—CYNTHIA OZICK • WOODCUTS BY ANTONIO FRASCONI • “The text of this book was set in EMERSON MONOTYPE by A. COLISH, INC. The book was designed by ANTONIO FRASCONI, printed by REMBRANDT PRESS, INC., and bound by A. HOROWITZ AND SONS.” —PUBLISHER’S COLOPHON• ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “Recognizing that YENTYL seems to have the soul and disposition of a man, her father studies the Torah and other holy books with her. When he dies, YENTYL feels that she no longer has a reason to remain in the village, and so, late one night, she cuts off her hair, dresses as a young man, and sets out to find a yeshiva where she can continue her studies and live secretly as a man.” —THE PUBLISHER• “In one of ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER’s most haunting stories, ‘YENTL THE YESHIVA BOY,’ YENTL, a girl who has been initiated into the pleasures of sacred scholarship by her father, runs away after his death to continue her Talmudic studies at a Yeshiva. Disguised as a boy and calling herself ANSHEL, she falls in love with her study partner, AVIGDOR, and he with her. Tragic complications ensue.” —ELINOR LANGER, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (1983) • “I don’t typically review short stories, but ‘YENTL THE YESHIVA BOY’ was not a typical short story. As far as I’m concerned, ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER earned his Nobel Prize for this piece alone. Some reviewers call it a novel. Based on the structure, I would classify it as a short story. I’m in awe of the way every facet of this complex tale wove together at the end. At the same time the author included a bit of a cliff-hanger. What an amazing utilization of the short story form. I’ve never read a work of fiction with such well-developed conflict. The brevity of the story added to my awe of this achievement.” —KEVIN STEPHANY’S CRITIQUE COMPENDIUM (BLOG) • ABOUT THE AUTHOR: • “ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (1903-1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American author of short stories, novels, essays, cultural criticism, memoirs, and stories for children. His career spanned nearly seven decades of literary production, at the center of which was the translation of his work from Yiddish into English, which he undertook with various collaborators and editors. SINGER published widely during his lifetime, with nearly sixty stories appearing in THE NEW YORKER, and received numerous awards and prizes, including two NEWBERRY HONOR BOOK AWARDS (1968 & 1969), two NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS (1970 & 1974) and THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE (1978). Known for fiction that portrayed 19th-century Polish Jewry as well as supernatural tales that combined Jewish mysticism with demonology, SINGER was a master storyteller whose sights were set squarely on the tension between human nature and the human spirit.” —THE PUBLISHER • “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 • “He is certainly one of the most remarkable authors who ever lived.” —KENNETH REXROTH • “To read him for the first time is to enjoy one of the extraordinary literary experiences of our time.” —CATHERINE B. HUGHES• “ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER is an extraordinary writer.”—ALFRED KAZIN, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “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 • “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 • “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 • “A natural storyteller, who moves at his own pace, confident of his powers, fertile in invention, and able to hold the reader as long as he wishes…. SINGER’s characters live.” —THOMAS LASK, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “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 • “It becomes obvious that SINGER is more than a writer; he is a literature.” —STANLEY EDGAR HYMAN, THE NEW LEADER • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “YENTL THE YESHIVA BOY” AUTHOR: ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER TRANSLATORS: MARION MAGID & ELIZABETH POLLET ARTIST: ANTONIO FRASCONI TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX (New York), 1983 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First edition, 1983”—with no later printings listed. PAGES: 58ISBN: 0-374-29347-3 NOTE: THIS BOOK is not an ex-library copy nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition. CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD. Price ($10.95) is unclipped. Corners are rubbed. Top spine tip is rubbed; bottom is rubbed with a small nearby open cut (please see photos). Spine tips are bumped. Moderate scuffing along bottom edge of front; light scuffing along top edges of front & back. A few very light foxing specks can be found on the front & back flaps. Some faint foxing smudges appear on the interior but do not affect the exterior which is, overall, bright & clean. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.) CONDITION OF BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Orange cloth boards are clean & bright with sharp corners. Spine is tight & uncreased with bumped tips. Spine lettering remains bright. Text-block edges & endpapers are fine. 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