What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank stories Nathan Englander
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York, NY Vintage International 2012Edition: 1. Vintage international edDescription: 225 p. 21 cmISBN:- 0307949605
- 9780307949608
- What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | GESM Library Main Library | English Fiction Adolescent-Adult | EFA/ HF/ ENG W555 | Available | E0000832 |
The author of the sensational national best seller For the Relief of Unbearable Urges returns with a commanding new collection of short stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank establishes Nathan Englander beyond all doubt as the heir to Roth, Malamud, and Babel. A tour de force. The title story, inspired by Carver's masterpiece, is a comic classic, a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game. "Camp Sundown" is an outlandishly dark story of vigilante justice undertaken by a troop of geriatric campers in a bucolic summer enclave who recognize a fellow vacationer as a former Nazi guard. "Free Fruit for Young Widows" is a small, sharp study in evil. "Sister Hills" chronicles the history of the Israeli settlements from the eve of the Yom Kippur war through the present, a political story constructed around the tale of two mothers who strike a terrible bargain to save a child. A great leap forward from one of our most audacious and important writers, and a sensational literary event.
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