Burkah and Other Stories |
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| Author:
| Silbert, Layle |
| ISBN: | 978-0-924047-07-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2006 |
| Publisher: | Host Publications, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $9.95 |
Book Description:
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Fiction. An entertaining and beguiling collection of prose, Silbert's Burkah is heartfelt and lyrical. Her writing reaches the unexplored wrinkles of human life and her sober realism presents a unique portrait of humanity. From photographing the camera shy Isaac Bashevis Singer, to trying to cope with life as an outsider in the far east, to becoming a female intellectual in pre-WW II Chicago, Silbert gives readers a full portrait of the world we live in.
Fiction. An entertaining and beguiling collection of prose, Silbert's Burkah is heartfelt and lyrical. Her writing reaches the unexplored wrinkles of human life and her sober realism presents a unique portrait of humanity. From photographing the camera shy Isaac Bashevis Singer, to trying to cope with life as an outsider in the far east, to becoming a female intellectual in pre-WW II Chicago, Silbert gives readers a full portrait of the world we live in.