The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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.""