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The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer $2.75 |
The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) |
Editorial Review:
Themes of envy, betrayal and sexual perversity run through this collection of 20 short stories. The author also wrote "Satan in Goray", "The Manor", "The Magician of Lublin" and "The Manor", and won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
Worth it for the Title Story Alone: 
The Death of Methuselah, the title story, is one of the best short stories I've ever read. It deals with the hallucinatory last moments of Methuselah. The reader is taken taken on a trip through Jewish and Mesopotamian mythology, a trip brought on by Methuselah's lusting for Naamah the she-devil, consort of Asmodeus.
METHUSELAH'S CHILDREN: 
Master story teller Isaac Bashevis Singer regales us once again with this remarkable collection of short stories. Woe to those who are faint of heart or have inflexible moral standards. His stories are sure to give you a coronary as you are confronted with issues of blasphemy, debauchery, mystery and intrigue. Singer assaults the whole of human fickleness in his tales.Yet his tales are not all sordid. In "The Bitter Truth" we see a man's loyalty to his friend over-rides a secret that could spell...
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