For the Relief of Unbearable Urges · Stories

- Authors
- Englander, Nathan
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Tags
- contemporary , religion
- ISBN
- 9780307569516
- Date
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.78 MB
- Lang
- en
One of the most stunning literary debuts of our time, these energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories introduce an astonishing new talent.
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.
*From the Trade Paperback edition.*