The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories

Singer's last collection published during his lifetime, The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories reveals the master storyteller at his sharpest and most poignant. Featuring twenty stories, including "The Jew from Babylon," about a dying exorcist, "Disguised," about a forsaken wife who discovers her husband dressed as a woman and married to a man, and the title story, which portrays Methuselah at the age of 969, following his consciousness into the depths of the netherworld as his spirit slips into the next world.