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Shabtai,Yaakov

Uncle Peretz takes off & other stories

Mosaic Press, 1994

20.00 €

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(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Year of publication
1994
ISBN
0889624666
Place of printing
Oakville, ON
Author
Shabtai,Yaakov
Publishers
Mosaic Press
Edition
1st Canadian Edition.
Keyword
ISRAELI WRITERS FICTION SHORT STORIES ISRAEL
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

In Uncle Peretz Takes Off, the first collection of Shabtai's short fiction in English, a magnificent gallery of comic and idiosyncratic characters give Tel Aviv of the 1940s an unpredictable frontier quality. Shabtai portrays a society of individualists and schemers in search of redemption: Uncle Shmuel tries to make his fortune as a poulterer; Uncle Pinek, a born swindler, ends his days as a refugee in Monaco fleeing his creditors; the uncontrollably ribald Tamara Bell, who poses naked for artists, causes adolescent boys in the neighborhood small, excruciating flickers of desire. With unparalleled lyricism and humanity, Shabtai's stories embody the comedy, energy, and tragedy of the early years of the Zionist enterprise.