The Slave

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Penguin Books, 1974

0140037926 / 9780140037920

Serie: Libro 6 de 30 - Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions

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The Slave (1974) by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Penguin Books ISBN: 0140037926 Condition: Good Sold by: Crappy Old Books Here we have The Slave , Isaac Bashevis Singer?s quietly ferocious novel dressed in the most unassuming outfit imaginable: a 1974 Penguin Books paperback with the neat little ISBN 0140037926 , as if what follows is just another pleasant read for the bus. Spoiler: it is not a pleasant read for the bus unless you enjoy staring out of the window afterwards thinking, ?Well. Humanity is complicated,? while everyone else discusses sandwiches. Singer has a rare talent for writing stories that feel both intimate and myth-sized at the same time. The Slave is set in a world shaped by faith, tradition, fear, and longing, where people?s private lives are never entirely private, and every choice carries consequences that aren?t merely personal. It?s the kind of novel where love is real, suffering is real, and nobody gets to pretend that feelings are simple or convenient. If you like your fiction light and breezy, you may wish to retreat to the children?s section and lie down. What Singer does, brilliantly, is refuse to deal in cardboard saints or cartoon villains. He writes people who are caught between duty and desire, between survival and meaning, between what they are allowed to be and what they actually are. The prose is clear, the moral atmosphere is intense, and the emotional pressure builds steadily, not with melodrama but with inevitability. It?s not flashy. It?s just devastating, in that calm, confident way that leaves you more haunted than impressed. And because it?s Singer, there?s also that distinctive undercurrent of the uncanny and the philosophical, the sense that the world contains more than the visible facts. Even when the narrative is grounded, there?s a whisper of something larger in the shadows: history, God, fate, the weight of community, the way stories persist even when people don?t. This copy is in Good condition, which is exactly how a serious 1970s Penguin should be. Readable, solid, and slightly weathered, as if it has already accompanied at least one person through a period of ?I should probably read something important.? Expect honest wear: a few scuffs, perhaps, the softening that comes from being carried and opened and actually used. At Crappy Old Books, ?Good? means it has lived, not that it?s on its last legs. Sold by Crappy Old Books , because we specialise in books with character, not books that look like they?ve never been touched by human hands. Take this one home if you want a novel that is both spare and immense, simple on the surface and heavy underneath, the sort of book that doesn?t shout its greatness but quietly insists you pay attention. Read it. Finish it. Sit there for a bit. Then, inevitably, start telling other people, ?No, honestly, it?s incredible,? in the tone of someone who has been emotionally rearranged and is trying to make it sound casual.…

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Título
The Slave
Autor
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Editorial
Penguin Books
Año de publicación
1974
Estado
Good
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0140037926
ISBN 13
9780140037920
Edición
2ª Edición
Serie
Libro 6 de 30: Isaac Bashevis Singer: Classic Editions

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