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The Nimrod flipout / Etgar Keret ; translated from the Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger and Sondra Silverston.
Van Pelt Library PJ5054.K375 N5613 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keret, Etgar, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- Israel--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Israel.
- Genre:
- Short stories, Israeli.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 167 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Other Title:
- Nimrod flip out
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
- Summary:
- From Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer--"Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't" (Yann Martel, author of "Life of Pi) Already featured on "This American Life and "Selected Shorts and in "Zoetrope: All Story and "L.A. Weekly, these short stories include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend and the fat, soccer-loving lout she turns into after dark; shrinking parents; a case of impotence cured by a pet terrier; and a pessimistic Middle Eastern talking fish. A bestseller in Israel, "The Nimrod Flipout is an extraordinary collection from the preeminent Israeli writer of his generation.
- Contents:
- Fatso
- The nimrod flipout
- Shooting Tuvia
- One kiss on the mouth in Mombasa
- Your man
- Shriki
- Eight percent of nothing
- Pride and joy
- Surprise egg
- Dirt
- Actually, I've had some phenomenal hard-ons lately
- More life
- Glittery eyes
- Teddy trunk
- Malffunction
- Halibut
- For only 9.99 (inc. tax and postage)
- Horsie.
- ISBN:
- 0374222436
- OCLC:
- 60882020
- Publisher Number:
- 9780374222437
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