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For the relief of unbearable urges / Nathan Englander.
Van Pelt Library PS3555.N424 F67 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Englander, Nathan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Jews.
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- Jews--Persecutions--Fiction.
- Jews--Persecutions.
- Orthodox Judaism--Fiction.
- Orthodox Judaism.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 205 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999.
- Summary:
- A work of stunning authority and imagination, Englander's debut contains ten energized, irreverent stories rooted in the weight of Jewish history and the customs of Orthodox life.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0375404929
- OCLC:
- 39756396
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