- Published: 29 March 2022
- ISBN: 9781784873080
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 656
- RRP: $55.00
The Story of a Life
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- Published: 29 March 2022
- ISBN: 9781784873080
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 656
- RRP: $55.00
A work of astonishing beauty ... a masterpiece
Isaac Bashevis Singer
A literary masterpiece.... This is not the cracker-barrel blandness of some professional sage, as so often in America's ghost-written memoirs, but a wisdom of tragic insight and of hard-earned integrity
Saturday Review
An older man, a survivor, and a witness, Paustovsky writes against time, to tell the young what the past was like... His work is nothing like an elegy, nor is it as routine as a backward glance at the good or bad old days. It is, rather, a series of sketches, stories, novellas, in which vanished people (including the author's young self) are present again - as they once walked in a park, or smiled, or wept - and made anew in man's most endurable medium, language
New Yorker