Nathan Englander, Author . Knopf $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-40493-1
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Allegra Goodman
Young writers are often told to write about what they know. In his 1999 collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
, Nathan Englander spun the material of his orthodox Jewish background into marvelous...
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Nathan Englander, Author Alfred A. Knopf $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-40492-4
""I suffer greatly under the urges with which I have been blessed,"" says Dov Binyamin, an orthodox Jew agonizing over his wife Chava's self-imposed celibacy, and one of several protagonists in Englander's stellar first collection who seek often ill-
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Nathan Englander. Knopf, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-95870-9
It’s a tribute to Englander’s verve and scope that the eight stories in his new collection, although clearly the product of one mind with a particular set of interests (Israel; American Jewry and suburbia; writing and reading; sex, survival, and the
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Nathan Englander. Knopf, $26.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-5247-3273-8
“It’s Israel. We let murderers come home on weekends.” This is what a young man, known only as “the guard,” initially tells his mother, hoping to resist her plans that he take work in a prison. He is certain there’s no moral high ground to be found,
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Nathan Englander, Author, Arthur Morey, Read by , read by Arthur Morey. Random House Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-4193-3
Morey’s dulcet theatrical tones offset the messy lives of the characters in Englander’s first novel about Jewish residents of 1970s Buenos Aires who live in fear of Argentina’s vicious military dictatorship. Against the backdrop of
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Nathan Englander. Knopf, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-5247-3275-2
In Englander’s excellent comic dissection of Jewish-American life (following Dinner at the Center of the Earth), Larry is a secular Jew living in a goyish neighborhood in Brooklyn. When his father dies, Larry flies to Memphis to sit shivah with his...
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