The Spinoza of Market Street

In his classic followup to his debut story collection, Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer continues to introduce readers to his unique brand of fiction in eleven unforgettable stories. Praise: The most brilliant living representative of the Yiddish language in prose and one of the important contemporary writers in America. - The New York Times Review of Books There is a very old, durable and sage glow to these stories. - Kirkus 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. - The Washington Post Book World