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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book I've read by Isaac Bashevis Singer, who was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in literature.  It won't be my last.  Every scene is filled with insight about human nature.  The characters are sharply defined, and the author tells their stories in in a remarkable and straightforward ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38876571">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Issac Bashevis Singer is one of the greatest story tellers of the 20th century, whether writing about immigrant life in America or Jewish Shtehls of Russia and Poland where my grandparents are from.  <br/><br/>This is the story of holocaust survivors living in New York after WW II and how one stru...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19726111">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating read. The idea that the best and most pious Jews died in the Holocaust and the unscrupulous and dishonest were the natural survivors is fascinating. It seems somewhat blashphemous, but Singer pulls it off by having these broken, half-dead-by their-own-admissions characters wracked with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26231110">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an unusual story. I found it interesting more for its psychological exploration of its characters than for the story itself. The characters are all survivors of the Holocaust who have moved to America, but they all have issues to work through relating to their experiences, and most refuse to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9793491">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Singer should be read by more people than he seems to be.  He writes about post-holocaust families in the US in the 1940s trying to assimilate to a new country while dealing with the past.<br/><br/>A few bizarre twists to this novel, and not the most cheery, but Singer is a fantastic writer.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished it....somehow makes the impossible, manageable...I mean the Holocaust is given a human face, somehow, enjoining it to the rest of Western History. Here's the thing: it does it as a comical romp through the shenanigans of a polygamist who cannot decide with whom of his three wives to se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81595926">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I would have <em>never, ever, ever</em> picked this book up had I not had to find a book by an author who won a major literary prize in the year I was born. I looked at the list and wasn't very enthused. I looked at some titles by some of the authors and was even less enthused. How I decided on Singer I don'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47818891">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The best love story with a trigamist protaganist I have ever read.  One wife and a life of regret?  Bah!  Take three!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Last LMU book to read for 08-09.  Exccellent series, coordinated by Rhonda Rosen of LMU.  This last book was facilitated by Prof  Holly  L  Very good discussion.All the main characters seems  either damaged or broken.  All were Holocaust survivors.  We made a differentiation between a Holocaust Surv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54057744">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because a respected columnist in the WSJ said is was one of the books every American interested in the history and development of this country should read.<br/><br/>This was copyrighted in 1972 and at that time it probably was considered to be &quot;cutting edge&quot; writing. Frankly,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26128039">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Herman Broder survived the Jewish Holocaust in Europe by hiding in a hayloft in Poland for three years with the assistance of his peasant servant, Yadwiga.  Later, as an expatriate living in New York, he is married to Yadwiga, more out of a debt towards her than any true love.  He works for a rabbi,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20546466">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a story about Herman Broder and the 3 women in his life. <br/>Herman was hidden by a Polish peasant  during the Holocaust and he later marries her.   He has an affair with a Jewish refugee. Meanwhile his first wife, believed to be dead, is found alive. <br/><br/>I found this to be a very ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66713079">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead.  Astonished by each new complication, and yet resigned to a life of evasion, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New York with a sense of perpetually impending doom. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a huge fan of Isaac Singer and this is by far his best novel.  Singers characters are some of the most interesting ones I've ever come across in a novel.  His characters are riddled with desire, despair, and a lethal dose of Holocaust survivor's guilt.  Also, this novel has been wonderfully ada...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70193646">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead.  Astonished by each new complication, and yet resigned to a life of evasion, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New York with a sense of perpetually impending doom. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not like this book.  Hence the one lonely star. I guess you have to give at least one star... I mean the author went through all that effort and agony to write a novel. I guess he deserves something.  I shall reward him with a gold star.  One gold star. I'll start a category for my lone star b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57567441">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book, and film, about the holocaust.  Herman escapes Nazis by hiding out only to discover his wife still lives and has somehow channelled the life force.  He has too many lovers and a bad job.  Who else but Singer could have turned WWII into a farce that is surprisingly deep?  A wond...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43078776">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this part:<br/><br/><br/>&quot;If time is just a form of perception, or a category of reason, the past is as present as today: Cain continues to murder Abel. Nebuchadnezzar is still slaughtering the sons of Zedekiah and putting out Zedekiah's eyes. The pogrom in Kesheniev never ceases. Jews...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41461276">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[New York Judaism in the aftermath of the Holocaust.  Also, trigamy.  The style's crisp, though the protagonist is a complex and not entirely likeable guy (aside from the philandering, which he becomes increasingly honest about anyway...).<br/><br/>There's a start-and-stop to the narrative, in whic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/494749">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead.  Astonished by each new complication, and yet resigned to a life of evasion, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New York with a sense of perpetually impending doom. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first novel of Singer with and american setting that I read and I liked it a lot. The main character, Herman, is a &quot;classic&quot;, the weak men who can't help himself but love and follow all his women.]]></body>
    
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