Scum

An authentic literary great, Singer was an author whose extraordinary talents won him a worldwide audience. And with this impressive novel, he proved that he was at the height of his creative power until his recent death at age 86. Scum evokes the teeming life of 1906 Warsaw's backstreets. Max Barabander, distraught over the recent death of his son, flees the life of wealth and respectability he has attained in Buenos Aires, to return to the poverty and shadows of his youth spent in Warsaw. He fears impotence which leads him to the pursuit of mindless sex with five different women who view him only as an escape from their drab lives. The author recalls the teeming life of 1906 Jewish Warsaw in this impressive novel of changing mores and values. . .

Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 06/30/2003
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.54h x 6.72w x 0.61d
ISBN13: 9780374529079
ISBN10: 0374529078
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Magical Realism
- Fiction | World Literature | Poland

About the Author

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-91) was the author of many novels, stories, and children's books. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.

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