WITH AN ALS OF TONY KUSHNER

Wandering Stars. Translated from the Yiddish by Aliza Shevrin. [Foreword by Tony Kushner].

[New York]: Viking, [2009].

Price: $350.00

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1 vols. 8vo. WITH AN ALS OF TONY KUSHNER. Blue boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Letter with small piece of cellotape at head.

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Sholem Aleichem’s celebrated late novel, with a foreword by award-winning dramatist Tony Kushner, who observes, “Wandering Stars is about lovve, it’s about love between Jews who work in the theater. So it should be strange and imperfect. Theater is almost never perfect; its imperfectness, its incompleteness, and its tawdriness, are among the principal sources of its power.”

Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed from Kushner, on personal letterhead, presenting the book to his friend, the columnist Liz Smith, who has often written “I love Tony Kushner almost more than anybody I know!”

In part: "Dear Liz – Thanks for citing me in your column, 10,000 people instantly emailed wanting to know where the quote came from. I thought you might enjoy this book, it's about the Yiddish theater and it's fantastic, I think... Love, Tony K"