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The Bright Streets of Surfside: The Memoir of a Friendship with Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Bright Streets of Surfside: The Memoir of a Friendship with Isaac Bashevis Singer

Goran

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0873385063
ISBN13: 9780873385060
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: Nov 10 1994
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.77 Depth: 8.79
Language: English

The Bright Streets of Surfside chronicles 10 years in the life of Isaac Bashevis Singer, as witnessed and shared by a fellow writer close to him at the time. In 1978, with a mixture of hero worship and academic responsibility as director of creative writing at the University of Miami, Lester Goran brought Singer to teach at the Coral Gables campus. The eminent Polish-American author was then 74 years old and five months away from receiving the Nobel Prize. Goran became Singer's closest friend and translator as they taught advanced courses in creative writing together until Singer retired in 1988. With a sometimes painful authenticity, Goran recounts the course of their extraordinary friendship. It was a fascinating time, writes Goran, recalling his frustration at Singer's intractable desire not to teach (he mistrusted the faculty and was bewildered by the students) and his pleasure in Singer's company.

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