In the Days of Simon Stern

This states, ambitious amalgam of Jewish myth, history, theology, and speculations on the Jewish soul is like an enormous Judaic archaeological ruin-often hard for the uninitiated to interpret, but impressive, intelligent, inventive, and fascinating.

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 "A Hero in His Time" 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: 15.12.1987
• EAN: 9780226112541
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11254-1
• No. of pages: 470
• Dimensions: 14 mm x 20 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 482 g
• Series: Phoenix Fiction; Phoenix Books; Phoenix Fiction Series PF (CHUP); Phoenix Fiction Series PF
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies