Isaac Bashevis Singer "A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories."
"A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories" is a 1973 book of short stories It shared the 1974 National Book Award for Fiction with Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.The 24 stories in this collection were translated from Yiddish―Singer's language of choice for writing―by Singer, Laurie Colwin, and others. The stories appear in the following: "A Crown of Feathers," "A Day in Coney Island,"- "The Captive," "The Blizzard," "Property," "The Lantuch," "The Son from America," "The Briefcase," "The Cabalist of East Broadway," "The Bishop's Robe," "A Quotation from Klopstock," "The Magazine," "Lost," "The Prodigy," "The Third One," "The Recluse," "A Dance and a Hop," "Her Son," "The Egotist," "The Beard," "The Dance," "On a Wagon," "Neighbors," and "Grandfather and Grandson."
Alfred Kazin noted in his 1974 review of the book in "The New York Times:" "Isaac Bashevis Singer is an extraordinary writer. And this new collection of stories, like so much that he writes, represents the most delicate imaginative splendor, wit, mischief and, not least, the now unbelievable life that Jews once lived in Poland."
ISBN: 0449234657.
Mass Market Paperback. 1973.
Light shelf wear. Tiny tear on back cover. Very slightly yellowing edges of pages. Previous owner’s sticker on back of front cover. Otherwise, like new inside.