Author:
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Learn moreThis short story from the collection Gimpel the Fool, and Other Stories is infused with the wit and imagination, the humor and wisdom, that characterizes all of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s work. Theodore Bikel reads this tale in classic Yiddish storyteller cadence, injecting special warmth and resonance.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991) was the author of many novels, stories, children’s books, and memoirs. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction in 1989.
Theodore Bikel (1924–2015) was an award-winning stage and screen actor, an activist for civil rights and progressive causes worldwide, and a singer whose voice won him critical acclaim. Some of his credits include The Defiant Ones, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, and Fiddler on the Roof.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Theodore Bikel
ISBN:
9781481510899
Length:
42 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:
September 1, 2014
Edition:
Unabridged
Reviews
“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.”
“Singer is a genius. He has total command of his imagined world.”
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