Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978, Hardcover)

Shosha
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Copyright 1978
Seventh Printing

This is Isaac Bashevis Singer's first novel in six years, his last being Enemies, A Love Story (1972).  He describes his new novel as "a story of a few unique characters in unique circumstances" -- the background being the 1930s in Warsaw, the years of Hitler's rise to power.  The characters are the narrator, Aaron Greidinger, familiarly known as Tsutsik, an aspiring young writer, and his circle of bohemian friends.  Chief among them is Dr. Morris Feitelzohn, a member of the Writers' Club who, just when Tsutsik's life has reached its lowest point, introduces him to a rich American, Sam Dreiman, and his mistress, Betty Slonim, an actress.  To further Betty's career, the American decides to put up the money for a play Tsutsik is writing, and the young man's life is suddenly transformed.

He finds himself emotionally involved with four women -- Betty, who admires his talent; Celia, an older married woman he meets through Dr. Feitelzohn; Tekla, a girl from the country who works as a maid in his new flat; and Dora the Marxist, an old flame with whom he is reconciled on the eve of her Soviet departure.  "In all the novels I have read," Tsutsik tells himself, "the hero desired only one woman, but here I was lusting after the whole female gender."  One spring day, walking with Betty through his old Krochmalna Street neighborhood, Tsutsik rediscovers his past -- in the person of his childhood playmate, Shosha, still an innocent young woman.  Tsutsik's and Shosha's subsequent fate and that of all the friends, revealed in an epilogue in Israel, rounds off this wonderful saga of human unpredictability, self-deception, and humor in the midst of tragedy.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanned and darkening from age.  When the book is closed, the page edges are discolored.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Dust cover and flaps are tanned from age.  Dust cover shows a bit of edge wear and tear and creasing.

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