For the Relief of Unbearable Urges Stories

Name: For the Relief of Unbearable Urges Stories
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ISBN: 9780375704437

ISBN-10: 0375704434

ISBN-13: 9780375704437

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Authors: Nathan Englander

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One of the most stunning literary debuts of our time, these energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories introduce an astonishing new talent. 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…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/21/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.10" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Nathan Englander is the author of the internationally bestselling story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and the novel The Ministry of Special Cases. Translated into more than a dozen languages, Englander was selected as one of '20 Writers for the 21st Century' by The New Yorker. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Malamud Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.http://www.nathanenglander.com/ http://nathanenglander.tumblr.com/ https://www.facebook.com/NEnglander https://twitter.com/NathanEnglander



The Twenty-seventh Man


The Tumblers


Reunion


The Wig


The Gilgul of Park Avenue


Reb Kringle


The Last One Way


For the Relief of Unbearable Urges


In This Way We Are Wise