For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

✍ Scribed by Nathan Englander

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage eBooks
• Year: 2012;2010
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 122 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0307569519

✦ Synopsis

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.