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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374515220
ISBN-139780374515225
eBay Product ID (ePID)139559
Product Key Features
Book TitleEnemies, a Love Story
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1988
TopicMagical Realism, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorIsaac Bashevis Singer
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight9.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN78-189337
Dewey Edition18
Reviews"One is forever suspended between laughter and tears by this rich and marvelous novel."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt,The New York Times, "One is forever suspended between laughter and tears by this rich and marvelous novel."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times, "One is forever suspended between laughter and tears by this rich and marvelous novel." -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
Dewey Decimal839/.09/33
SynopsisAlmost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. Astonished by each new complication, and yet resigned to a life of evasion, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New York with a sense of perpetually impending doom., Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. Astonished by each new complication, and yet resigned to a life of evasion, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New York with a sense of perpetually impending doom.