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The bright streets of surfside : the memoir of a friendship with Isaac Bashevis Singer by Lester Goran; Isaac Bashevis Singer; ProQuest (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 Singers 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 Singers intractable desire not to teach (he mistrusted the faculty and was bewildered by the students) and his pleasure in Singers company. Touching and humorous, the memoir offers a rare opportunity to learn about this influential Yiddish writer who often concealed his real beliefs, feelings, and personal history from the public. Goran tells the tale with an honesty that is unsparing of his own dilemmas while it is deeply

Who reads The bright streets of surfside : the memoir of a friendship with Isaac Bashevis Singer?

Author

Lester Goran; Isaac Bashevis Singer; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781612770994

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities