Book description
Acclaimed as an astonishing debut, For the Relief of Unbearable
Urges is a collection of nine delightfully irreverent stories that
range from Stalin's Russia to contemporary New York. Wise and
compassionate, outrageous and wrenchingly sad, they place Nathan
Englander firmly in the company of Bellow, Malamud, Singer and Roth.
Nathan Englander was born in 1970. His first book, For the Relief of
Unbearable Urges, a collection of short stories, was published in May
1999 and became an international bestseller. It earned him a
PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Nathan was selected as
one of '20 Writers for the 21st Century' by The New Yorker, was awarded
the Bard Fiction Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His short fiction
has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and numerous
anthologies including The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry
Prize Anthology, and the Pushcart Prize. His first novel, The Ministry
of Special Cases, was published in 2007.
