Shadows on the Hudson Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer Grein leaned his head against the wall, noting how the fumes of alcohol rose from his stomach to his brain...Was he really prepared to leave Leah? Did he really love Anna that much? Was he willing to start a new family with her, have other children by her?...His whole life had been one long improvisation. He had wanted to study natural science, ... more »but instead he had enrolled in the philosophy faculty. He had made up his mind to remain a bachelor, but he had married the first girl who kissed him. He had dreamed of the academic life, but had emigrated to America and had become a broker on Wall Street. Now, without the slightest compunction, he had grabbed the wife of Stanislaw Luria and the daughter of Boris Makaver. He would be cursed for what he had done, and bring others grief. He had noted in his diary that whoever violated the Ten Commandments set himself on the road to physical and spiritual ruin, and still he had broken them.« less