Word: shosha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SHOSHA by Isaac Bashevis Singer Farrar, Straus & Giroux;277 pages...
...Shosha, Singer's eighth novel, is thus a variation on a theme that the author has played many times before, and not a whitless enjoyable for that. Among his many accomplishments, Singer is a master at showing how familiarity can breed contentment. Here again is Warsaw when hailing a cab meant finding a horse-drawn droshky; here are the smells and sounds of Krochmalna Street, the intrigue and gossip at the Writers' Club, the dark, snowy vistas on the Vistula...