Painted in Words: A Memoir

by Samuel Bak

At my first sight of a painting by Samuel Bak, I had the keen sense that he was telling me stories with his brush. Now that at long last he has written this book, I find it no wonder that he has painted with his pen.... Among the tens and hundreds of books I have read about the pre-Shoah and post-Shoah period... Bak's book is unique. Despite being suffused with a sense of loss, horror, degradation, and death, it is ultimately a sanguine, funny book,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253340489
• ISBN13: 9780253340481
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"