num_pages: 256
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."
language: English
title: The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories
titlecomplete: The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Judaica, Poland, Nobel Prize, Judaism, Short Stories, Jewish, Novels
ratings_count: 273
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux