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For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Author: Nathan Englander
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, ...  more »
ISBN: 414070
Publication Date: 4/2000
Pages: 205
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Publisher: Vintage International
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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