Overview
- Summary
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Knopf, 2012
- Contents
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What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank
Sister hills
How we avenged the blums
Peep show
Everything I know about my family is on my mother's side
Camp Sundown
The reader
Free fruit for young widows. - Notes
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What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank -- Sister hills -- How we avenged the blums -- Peep show -- Everything I know about my family is on my mother's side -- Camp Sundown -- The reader -- Free fruit for young widows.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307958709
0307958701 - Physical Description
- 207 pages ; 25 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Short stories, American. Fiction.
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- 2024-06-21 18:51:00
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