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For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

Audiobook
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review

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–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

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Publisher: Books on Tape Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781415938102
  • File size: 191146 KB
  • Release date: March 20, 2007
  • Duration: 06:38:13

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781415938102
  • File size: 191158 KB
  • Release date: March 20, 2007
  • Duration: 06:42:10
  • Number of parts: 7

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OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

Languages

English

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review

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–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

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