Beware Of God. Stories. First UK printing. Inscribed by the Author. SCARCE

Auslander, Shalom

ISBN 10: 0743264568 / ISBN 13: 9780743264563

Published by London. Picador/Pan Macmillan, 2006

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London. Picador/Pan Macmillan. 2006. First UK Edition/First UK Printing (full number line including the number 1 on the copyright page). Published with the same dust jacket the previous year in the US. Hard Cover. Crown 8vo 7½" x 5" [19cm x 12.7cm] approx. 194 pp. Black cloth boards with bold white titles to the spine. Contains 14 short stories; see seller image for titles. Artwork to jacket by Shepard Fairley. Book and jacket are as new with no obvious wear. Inscribed by the author to the title page and scarce in that respect. Auslander draws upon his upbringing in an Orthodox Jewish community in New York State to craft stories that are filled with shame, sex, God, and death, but also manage to be wickedly funny and poignant. The dust jacket will be protected with a new inert archival Brodart sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS or Transglobal Express. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message. Seller Inventory # *JUL2724005

Bibliographic Details

Title: Beware Of God. Stories. First UK printing. ...

Publisher: London. Picador/Pan Macmillan

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Violent rabbis, lovelorn wives, a busy Grim Reaper, shame-filled simians, and one seriously angry deity populate this humorous and disquieting collection.

Shalom Auslander's stories in Beware of God have the mysterious punch of a dream. They are wide ranging and inventive: A young Jewish man's inexplicable transformation into a very large, blond, tattooed goy ends with a Talmudic argument over whether or not his father can beat his unclean son with a copy of the Talmud. A pious man having a near-death experience discovers that God is actually a chicken, and he's forced to reconsider his life -- and his diet. At God's insistence, Leo Schwartzman searches Home Depot for supplies for an ark. And a young boy mistakes Holocaust Remembrance Day as emergency preparedness training for the future.

Auslander draws upon his upbringing in an Orthodox Jewish community in New York State to craft stories that are filled with shame, sex, God, and death, but also manage to be wickedly funny and poignant.

Review:

"It's a noble tradition that includes such luminaries as Groucho Marx, Fran Lebowitz and Jon Stewart, outsiders who mock society with a surgical scalpel of wit to reveal the ridiculous in sharp relief. To that illustrious group some may consider adding writer Shalom Auslander."

-- Ruth Andrew Ellenson, Los Angeles Times

"Hilarious, curious, possibly scandalous, keenly observed and bleeding fresh."

-- Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors