FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES
Englander, David
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Quantity: 1About this Item
First edition, first prnt. Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid-in. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Englander's first book. Seller Inventory # 40921
Bibliographic Details
Title: FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES
Publisher: Knopf, NY
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcovers
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
About this title
Their acceptance as acrobats was a stretch, a first-glance guess, a benefit of the doubt granted by circumstance and only as valuable as their debut would prove. It was an absurd undertaking. But then again, Mendel thought, no more unbelievable than the reality from which they'd escaped, no more unfathomable than the magic of disappearing Jews.Another story, "Reb Kringle," is almost breezy by comparison. Each year, one Brooklynite dreads his holiday job from hell, playing Santa Claus in a Manhattan department store: "There were elves posted on each side of Itzik; one--a humorless, muscular midget--wore a pair of combat boots that gave him the look of elf-at-arms. His companion might have been a twin. He wore black high-tops but had the same vigilant paramilitary demeanor." Itzik can put up with the children's accidents and greed, with his sciatica, and even with a mischief maker's attempt to cut off his beard. But when one boy admits that what he really wants to do is celebrate Hanukkah, "the infamous Reb Santa" loses it. Though this is undoubtedly the collection's lightest piece--proof positive that you have to be a saint to be a Jewish Santa--it is no less piercing an examination of identity and obligation than Englander's more heavyweight entries. --Kerry Fried
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