num_pages: 244
description: Twenty stories from the Nobel Prizewinner, including "Disguised," a transvestite tale of the yeshiva student whose deserted wife finds him dressed as a woman and married to a man, and the title story, which portrays Methuselah at the age of 969 -- "and when you pass your nine hundredth birthday, you are not what you used to be."The Jew from Babylon --The house friend --Burial at sea --The recluse --Disguised --The accuser and the accused --The trap --The smuggler --A peephole in the gate --The bitter truth --The impresario --Logarithms --Gifts --Runners to nowhere --The missing line --The hotel --Dazzled --Sabbath in Gehenna --The last gaze --The death of Methuselah
language: English
title: The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories
titlecomplete: The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories
genres: Poland, Jewish, 20th Century, Novels, Nobel Prize, Short Stories, Judaica, Classics, Fiction, Judaism
ratings_count: 273
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux