{"product_id":"for-the-relief-of-unbearable-urges-stories-9780375704437","title":"For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories","description":"Energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories from Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor the Relief of Unbearable Urges\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of startling authority and imagination--a book that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad. It hearalds the arrival of a remarkable new storyteller.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNathan Englander is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Ministry of Special Cases\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collections \u003ci\u003eFor the Relief of Unbearable Urges\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank\u003c\/i\u003e, a winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323872252178,"sku":"9780375704437","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_95ec3f97-e999-46de-bc1a-beff67c0d2a5.jpg?v=1727661861","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/for-the-relief-of-unbearable-urges-stories-9780375704437","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}