Simckes (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Fiction Collective, 1975. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with spotting on page ends. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Very good hardcover with similar dust jacket. First printing. Crayon on top corner on front endpaper. Text clean. Spine ends lightly faded. Tape on inner and outer side on rear dust jacket. Rubbing to dust jacket. Small nicks to dust jacket spine ends.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 370 pages. 8.25x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good nick to bottom edge in Very good tiny chips to head and heal of spine dust jacket. First Edition.

Zustand: Good +. Location:450 illsutrated by Mimi Grooms dj worn and creased wild story by important American Jewish playwright author of Seven Days of Mourning 450.

Zustand: Very Good.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Despite all its tales of death and dying, this delightful and highly original collection of stories by Lazarre Seymour Simckes is teeming with life. The cast of characters includes God, Satan, Noah, Job, psychiatric patients, doctors, rabbis, a sexton, a Torah scribe, professors, a talking moose, and a parrot that sings American hit songs. Some stories are left up in the air, as if waiting for Elijah the Prophet to explain them at the end of days. This amazing book reminds us of the deeper and lasting joys of surrendering to the voice of a storyteller who can keep us on our toes from sentence to sentence with wit, audacity, orphic utterance, refreshing language, jokes and abiding affection and horror for human folly. As the writer Jerome Charyn puts it, 'Simckes is a master of the absurd. Every movement he makes, every line, every gesture, is both funny and dangerous.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In a Nutshell' by Lazarre Seymour Simckes is a collection of four illustrated stories in which characters jump from crisis to crisis and from story to story, as if caught up in a series of circus acts, dreaming of their lives instead of living them. The author himself is trapped in this nutshell, appearing in two of the tales. His previous work has been hailed as a riveting puzzle, unforgettable, funny, wild, unique, enlivened by an almost hysterical inventiveness, a black requiem for man's happiness and a haunting human tragedy.He has taught at Harvard, Vassar, Yale, Williams, Brandeis and Tufts, as well as in Israel at Bar-Ilan and Haifa universities, and in Finland at the University of Tampere. Currently, he is preparing to launch an interactive writing workshop for participants in the Middle East region which will enable them to share their life experiences.…