Last Pages: Stories, A Play, Poems, Essays

Name: Last Pages: Stories, A Play, Poems, Essays
Brand: Prospect Park Books
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ISBN: 9781945551512

by Oscar Mandel

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"Indirect, subliminal magic." –New York Times Book Review

"Strong, sophisticated stories." –Chicago Tribune

"Joyfulness and simple wisdom." –San Francisco Chronicle

"Delightful little tales, best described as modern Aesop fables." –Hollywood Reporter

Last Pages brings together some of the most thought-provoking and engaging works of Oscar Mandel, a noted Belgian-American playwright, essayist, poet, fiction writer, and scholar. Comprising essays, a novella, a one-act play, and poetry, Last Pages dances through Mandel's archives with wit, sharp intelligence, and sometimes controversy, as with his essay on Judaism, "To Be or Not to Be a Jew."

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Book details

Author: Oscar Mandel
Imprint: Prospect Park Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published: November 12, 2019
Pages: 296
Formats: Paperback
Subjects: Fiction › Short Stories (single author)
Topics: short stories · poetry · literary essays · one-act play · novella · anthology · Belgian-American literature · Judaism
ISBN-13: 9781945551512

About the author

OSCAR MANDEL is a Belgian-born American playwright, poet, and professor emeritus of literature at the California Institute of Technology whose published works span poetry, drama, fiction, the essay, literary scholarship and theory, translation, and art history. His recent books include Otherwise Poems and Otherwise Fables.

Mandel holds the position of professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology. His translations draw especially from French and German.

Oscar lives in Los Angeles, California, and Paris, France. Visit his website at www.oscarmandel.com