About this title: Herman Broder 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-13:9780374148300ISBN:0374148309
Description: Good. 0374148309 X-Library w/ typical mylar jacket cover, stickers, stamps & removed pocket. Jacket shows light wear inside mylar. Interior evidences gentle use, binding is tight, pages clean; overall, a very serviceable copy. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Fawcett
Date Published: 1973
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. paperback (US). Glued binding. 254 p. Audience: General/trade. Edgewear, soft corners, small tear top of cover, names on fly, 96 read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-13:9780374148300ISBN:0374148309
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-13:9780374148300ISBN:0374148309
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 1988-04-01
ISBN-13:9780374515225ISBN:0374515220
Description: Fair. Cover has a little edge wear and stickers on back. Text has underlining and notes in margins. Good as a reading copy ONLY! ! ! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Publications, Greenwich, CT
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780449018774ISBN:0449018776
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Fawcett Crest P1877 Mass Market Paperback edition. First Fawcett Crest printing of the 1972 Farrar, Straus, Giroux hardcover edition. 256pp. Pictorial card covers. Spine and cover creases minor water wrinkling to last 20 pp. read more
Edition: 8th
Binding: Paper
Publisher: Noonday Press, N. Y.
Date Published: 1995
Description: Cover Art. Good. No Jacket. Trade Paperback. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The cover has very light shelf wear. Owners name on the inside cover...A little underlining...The book may have minor flaws that may have gone unnoticed.... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 1988-04-01
ISBN-13:9780374515225ISBN:0374515220
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
"I am a huge fan of Isaac Singer and this is by far his best novel. Singers characters are some of the most interesting ones I've ever come across in a novel. His characters are riddled with desire, despair, and a lethal dose of Holocaust survivor's guilt. Also, this novel has been wonderfully adapted into film by Paul Mazursky and features the beautiful Lena Olin as the fiery "Masha." Must read and must watch!"
"This is a story about Herman Broder and the 3 women in his life. Herman was hidden by a Polish peasant during the Holocaust and he later marries her. He has an affair with a Jewish refugee. Meanwhile his first wife, believed to be dead, is found alive.
I found this to be a very engrossing tale of people who are all flawed in some way and haunted by their holocaust experience.
"I did not like this book. Hence the one lonely star. I guess you have to give at least one star... I mean the author went through all that effort and agony to write a novel. I guess he deserves something. I shall reward him with a gold star. One gold star. I'll start a category for my lone star books, the Texas category."
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