Acts of Theft

The island was lost-dropped from sight and memory-for not less than four centuries. Once a cenobite shared his hermitage with the island's crawling things, but that was all briefly. A year, more, who knows? He died unrecorded. Lost like the island, he was rediscovered by fishermen, a skeleton with cross and scapular, miraculously intact but moldy with moss. The island was otherwise uninhabited for these several centuries, except for the dead.

About the author

Arthur A. Cohen (1928-1986), novelist, essayist, and theologian, received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in 1973 for In the Days of Simon Stern and the National Jewish Book Award in 1984. His A People Apart was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972. Cohen's novels Acts of Theft and In the Days of Simon Stern are also available in Phoenix Fiction paperback editions from the University of Chicago Press.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur A. Cohen
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.1988
• EAN: 9780226112503
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11250-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 20 mm x 25 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Phoenix Fiction; Phoenix Fiction Series PF
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature