One 'Meshugah' Tale: Isaac Bashevis Singer's new posthumous novel is

From: The Jewish Week | Date: May 13, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Sandee Brawarsky
The Jewish Week
05-13-1994
One `Meshugah' Tale: Isaac Bashevis Singer's new posthumous novel is a. crazy kind of love story that's `entirely New York.'

We haven't heard the last from Isaac Bashevis Singer. The late Nobel prize-winning author was so prolific in his 87 years that his posthumous publishing career is flourishing.

"Meshugah" (Farrar Straus Giroux, $22), Singer's newly published novel and the third since his death in 1991, first appeared in Yiddish in the Forward in weekly installments from April 1981 to February 1983. Robert Giroux, Singer's longtime editor in ...

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