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For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories - Paperback

by Nathan Englander
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nathan EnglanderSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:2000-03-21Pages:224
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375704437ISBN-10:375704434UPC:9780375704437Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Jewish, HumorousAward:1999 National Jewish Book Award Nominee - Fiction Award|1999 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Nominee - Fiction Award|1999 L.A. Times Book Prize Nominee - First Fiction Award|2002 Bard Fiction Prize Winner - Emerging Writer AwardSize:8.06 x 5.38 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.51Product ID:SCF2PQHCMR
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375704437ISBN-10:375704434UPC:9780375704437Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Jewish, HumorousAward:1999 National Jewish Book Award Nominee - Fiction Award|1999 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Nominee - Fiction Award|1999 L.A. Times Book Prize Nominee - First Fiction Award|2002 Bard Fiction Prize Winner - Emerging Writer AwardSize:8.06 x 5.38 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.51Product ID:SCF2PQHCMR

Nathan Englander is the author of the novel The Ministry of Special Cases and the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, a winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.


Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

Awards

🏆 1999 National Jewish Book Award Nominee - Fiction Award|1999 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Nominee - Fiction Award|1999 L.A. Times Book Prize Nominee - First Fiction Award|2002 Bard Fiction Prize Winner - Emerging Writer Award

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Nathan Englander

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Nathan Englander

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