Dec 22, 2009
A Little Boy in Search of God/A Young Man in Search of Love/Lost in America | A Little Boy in Search of God/A Young Man in Search of
Love/Lost in America
At a glance:
- Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ira Moskowitz, Raphael Soyer
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1904-1936
- Setting: Poland and the United States
- Principal Characters: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Pinchos Menachem Singer, Bathsheba Zylberman Singer, Israel Joshua Singer, Gina Halbstark, Stefa Janovsky, Stefa Treitler, Lena, Zosia Fishelzohn
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Memory, God, Spiritual life or spirituality, Jews or Jewish life, Good and evil, Youth
Form and Content
In a note prefacing Lost in America, Isaac Bashevis
Singer makes it clear that this book, and the two which preceded
it, A Little Boy in Search of God and A Young Man in
Search of Love, were not conventional autobiographies. Unlike
most writers in this genre, who emphasize accuracy, Singer believed
that it was more important to protect people with whom he had been
involved in the past than to tell the whole truth; therefore, he
changed names and omitted or altered events, much as a writer of
fiction would do. Clearly, this is not the...
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