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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.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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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