Magician of Lublin

Name: Magician of Lublin
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ISBN: 9780374532543

ISBN-10: 0374532540

ISBN-13: 9780374532543

Edition: 2010

Authors: Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Yasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland. Half Jewish, half gentile, a freethinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant Jewish wife, a gentile assistant who travels with him, and a mistress in every town. For Yasha is an escape artist, not only onstage but in life, a man who lives under the spell of his own hypnotic effect on women. Now, though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escapefrom his wife and her faith and their homeland. Set in the shtetls and Warsaw of the 1870sbut first published in 1960Isaac Bashevis Singer's second novel hides a haunting psychological portrait…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/14/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-91) was the author of many novels, stories, children's books, and memoirs. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.