cover image Day of Pleasure

Day of Pleasure

Isaac Bashevis Singer. Farrar Straus Giroux, $9.99 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-374-41696-6

This is a collection of 19 episodes from Singer's boyhood life on Krochmalna Street in Warsaw. ""Singer has written an extraordinary book that will give many days of pleasure to adults as well as children,'' PW stated. ``These are sensitive, youthful and observant portraits of what Jewish life was like in Poland.'' (All ages)