Uncle Peretz takes off & other stories
by Shabtai,Yaakov
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0889624666
- ISBN 13
- 9780889624665
- Seller
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, 1994 Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 1st Canadian Edition.. In Uncle Peretz Takes Off, the first collection of Shabtai's short fiction in English, a magnificent gallery of comic and idiosyncratic characters give Tel Aviv of the 1940s an unpredictable frontier quality. Shabtai portrays a society of individualists and schemers in search of redemption: Uncle Shmuel tries to make his fortune as a poulterer; Uncle Pinek, a born swindler, ends his days as a refugee in Monaco fleeing his creditors; the uncontrollably ribald Tamara Bell, who poses naked for artists, causes adolescent boys in the neighborhood small, excruciating flickers of desire. With unparalleled lyricism and humanity, Shabtai's stories embody the comedy, energy, and tragedy of the early years of the Zionist enterprise..
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045283
- Title
- Uncle Peretz takes off & other stories
- Author
- Shabtai,Yaakov
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st Canadian Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0889624666
- ISBN 13
- 9780889624665
- Publisher
- Mosaic Press
- Place of Publication
- Oakville, ON
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- ISRAELI WRITERS FICTION SHORT STORIES ISRAEL
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