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For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories

Englander, Nathan

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

HumorGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 0375704434
ISBN13: 9780375704437
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Mar 21 2000
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
Awards: Bard Fiction Prize, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, L.A. Times Book Prize, National Jewish Book Award
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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