The Slap
Michael Wilding, 17 April 1986
The Image, and Other Stories
by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Cape, 310 pp., £9.95, February 1986,0 224 02357 8 Show More
by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Cape, 310 pp., £9.95, February 1986,
“... holds no surprises for the writer. ‘He sat there pale, pondering his own tale. I said, “Helena was still alive, eh?” ’ These old tricks of suspense are still there, but they take a gentler role, so that the more numinous qualities of what is narrated can be dwelt on. It is nice to know how we travel through the story – to see the automobile ... ”