{"product_id":"9780739342824","title":"For the Relief of Unbearable Urges","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the most stunning literary debuts of our time, these energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories introduce an astonishing new talent.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man gets a special dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Wig\u003c\/i\u003e\" takes an aging wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \"\u003ci\u003eThe Tumblers\u003c\/i\u003e,\" 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . .A revelation of the human condition.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Remarkable art. . .The author fills each of these pieces with vivid life, with characters that jump off the page.\" - \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A debut collection of nine stories that explore the condition of being Jewish, with an often hallucinatory, epigrammatic eloquence that is, as advertised, reminiscent of the fiction of Issac Singer, Saul Bellow, and especially Bernard Malamud. An exemplary fusion of what T.S. Eliot called 'Tradition and Individual Talent,' and a truly remarkable debut.\" - \u003ci\u003eKirkus Review\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books on Tape, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47093758755056,"sku":"9780739342824","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780739342824_p0.jpg?v=1763630424","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780739342824","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}