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Author/Contributor(s): |
Englander, Nathan
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Publisher: |
Vintage
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Date: |
03/21/2000
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Binding: |
Paperback
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Condition: |
NEW
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Energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories from Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man gets a special dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute. The Wig takes an aging wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful. In The Tumblers, Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for the death camps and, in a deft, imaginative twist, turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm's way.
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a work of startling authority and imagination--a book that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad. It hearalds the arrival of a remarkable new storyteller.
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