Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories

Name: Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories
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ISBN: 9780312261887

ISBN-10: 0312261888

ISBN-13: 9780312261887

Edition: 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Etgar Keret

List price: $19.95

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Israel's hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for the first time in English. Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Keret's stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best comic authors, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain-from a father's first lesson to his boy to a standoff between soldiers caught in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 10/12/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



The Story About a Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God


Goodman


Hole in the Wall


A Souvenir of Hell


Uterus


Breaking the Pig


Cocked and Locked


The Flying Santinis


Korbi's Girl


Shoes


Missing Kissinger


Rabin's Dead


Plague of the Firstborn


Siren


Good Intentions


Katzenstein


The Mysterious Disappearance of Alon Shemesh


One Last Story and That's It


Jetlag


The Son of the Head of the Mossad


Pipes


Kneller's Happy Campers