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    "description": "<p><span>\"The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word,&rdquo; Mr. Singer stated in his Nobel Prize address. In this new collection, The Image and Other Stories, he practices what he preaches. The twenty-two entertaining stories range in time from the old days in Warsaw&mdash;as in &ldquo;A Nest Egg for Paradise,&rdquo; which shows how a pious soul escapes a sinful trap&mdash;to recent years in America, as in &ldquo;Confused,&rdquo; the comic portrait of an author pursued by admirers eager to share his bed as well as his fame.</span><br /><br /><span>&ldquo;One Day of Happiness,&rdquo; the story of a young girl who writes a love letter to a Polish general, ends in unforeseen horror. &ldquo;The Conference&rdquo; is a satirical portrait of leftist politics and sex as practiced by Flora, the darling of opposing splinter groups. Aunt Yentl is the narrator of classics like &ldquo;The Mistake,&rdquo; an account of what happens to a girl who marries a fool; &ldquo;Strong as Death Is Love,&rdquo; an amazing tale of fidelity in marriage even after death; and &ldquo;The Secret,&rdquo; an incredible story of a girl who unwittingly marries her father. The events of &ldquo;Loshikl&rdquo; are narrated in jail by an experienced and philosophical felon, and &ldquo;The Litigants&rdquo; reveals how two stubborn Polish squires unexpectedly settle their lawsuit. &ldquo;A Telephone Call on Yom Kippur&rdquo; appears to be a story of the supernatural but isn&rsquo;t, and a slap in the face serves as the theme of &ldquo;The Bond.&rdquo; The title story, &ldquo;The Image,&rdquo; shows how the memory of a unique love falls like a shadow between a newly married couple.</span><br /><br /><span>As Joyce Carol Oates has said, &ldquo;Singer is distinctive and original&hellip;One comes away from his books with their grotesque people and events, their whiff of the grave and of the diabolic, with a sense of optimism.&rdquo; This new book by a storytelling genius is an impressive addition to his masterly series of short stories.</span></p>",
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