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Already sold in eight countries around the world, these nine energized, irreverent stories from Nathan Englander introduce an astonishing new talent.    In Englander's amazingly taut and ambitious "The Twenty-seventh Man," a clerical error lands earnest, unpublished Pinchas Pelovits in prison with twenty-six writers slated for execution at Stalin's command, and in the grip of torture Pinchas composes a mini-masterpiece, which he recites in one glorious moment before author and audience are simultaneously annihilated. In "The Gilgul of Park Avenue," a Protestant has a religious awakening in the back of a New York taxi. In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man incensed by his wife's interminable menstrual cycle gets a dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute.              The stories in For the Relief of Unbearable Urges are powerfully inventive and often haunting, steeped in the weight of Jewish history and in the customs of Orthodox life. But it is in the largeness of their spirit-- a spirit that finds in doubt a doorway to faith, that sees in despair a chance for the heart to deepen--and in the wisdom that so prodigiously transcends the author's twenty-eight years, that these stories are truly remarkable. Nathan Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for Auschwitz and in a deft imaginative twist turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm's way; he takes an elderly wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful. Again and again, Englander does what feels impossible: he finds, wherever he looks, a province beyond death's dominion.For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a work of stunning authority and imagination--a book that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad, and that heralds the arrival of a profoundly gifted new storyteller.
Hardcover:
9780425274095 | Berkley Pub Group, January 6, 2015, cover price $27.95
Paperback:
9780425274101 | Berkley Pub Group, January 5, 2016, cover price $17.00
9780571201310, titled "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" | Faber & Faber Ltd, March 1, 2001, cover price $6.99 | also contains For the Relief of Unbearable Urges | About this edition: Already sold in eight countries around the world, these nine energized, irreverent stories from Nathan Englander introduce an astonishing new talent.
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9781483049113 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 6, 2015), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [Read by Robertson Dean] During the air battles that destroyed Nazi Germany's ability to wage war, one bomb group was especially distinguished.
9781483049120 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 6, 2015), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: [Read by Robertson Dean] During the air battles that destroyed Nazi Germany's ability to wage war, one bomb group was especially distinguished.
Product Description: During the air battles that destroyed Nazi Germany's ability to wage war, one bomb group was especially distinguished.The Hell's Angels.At the outbreak of World War II, the United States was in no way prepared to wage war. Although the US declared war against Germany in December 1941, the country lacked the manpower, the equipment, and the experience it needed to fight...read more
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9781483049106, titled "Hell's Angels: The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 6, 2015), cover price $118.00 | About this edition: During the air battles that destroyed Nazi Germany's ability to wage war, one bomb group was especially distinguished.
Product Description: WINNER OF 2014 SAN DIEGO BOOK AWARD FOR BEST PUBLISHED HISTORY, MILITARY AND POLITICSThe nearly half-million American aircrewmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared. And so have their stories. Award-winning writer and former fighter pilot Jay A...read more
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9781612002095 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, September 19, 2013, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: WINNER OF 2014 SAN DIEGO BOOK AWARD FOR BEST PUBLISHED HISTORY, MILITARY AND POLITICSThe nearly half-million American aircrewmen who served during World War II have almost disappeared.
Hardcover:
9780811705776, titled "Fighter Group: The 352nd "Blue-Nosed Bastards" in World War II" | Stackpole Books, October 1, 2012, cover price $28.95
Product Description: Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war machine the fuel and lubricants it so desperately needed...read more
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9781935149392 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, January 18, 2011, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war machine the fuel and lubricants it so desperately needed.
Hardcover:
9780811706599 | Stackpole Books, October 15, 2010, cover price $28.95
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9781591148432 | Naval Inst Pr, April 1, 2008, cover price $29.95
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9780891418658 | Presidio Pr, December 27, 2005, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A former U.
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9780891418719 | Reprint edition (Presidio Pr, December 26, 2006), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A former U.
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9780760321638 | Zenith Pr, November 15, 2005, cover price $21.95
Product Description: Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war machine the fuel and lubricants it so desperately needed...read more
Hardcover:
9781932033182 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, November 1, 2003, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war machine the fuel and lubricants it so desperately needed.
Product Description: THE FIRST HELLCAT ACE Cdr Hamilton McWhorter, III, USN (Ret) with Jay A. Stout Though he objected to being called such, Hamilton McWhorter III's service to family and country make him a standout among America's Greatest Generation...read more
Hardcover:
9780935553499 | Pacifica Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: THE FIRST HELLCAT ACE Cdr Hamilton McWhorter, III, USN (Ret) with Jay A.
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9781557508355 | Naval Inst Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $34.95
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