What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Englander, Nathan

ISBN 10: 0307958701 / ISBN 13: 9780307958709

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2012

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Signed by the author at the title page with no date or inscription. Fourth printing. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; except for some softening and rubbing at the spine heel of the hard cover and light shelf rubbing with a few very tiny chips at the spine ends and corners of the dust jacket, excellent, nearly as new. Unclipped jacket is now protected in a clear sleeve.; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307958701
• ISBN 13: 9780307958709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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Synopsis

These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.

The title story, inspired by Raymond Carver’s masterpiece, is a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the Holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game. In the outlandishly dark “Camp Sundown” vigilante justice is undertaken by a group of geriatric campers in a bucolic summer enclave. “Free Fruit for Young Widows” is a small, sharp study in evil, lovingly told by a father to a son. “Sister Hills” chronicles the history of Israel’s settlements from the eve of the Yom Kippur War through the present, a political fable constructed around the tale of two mothers who strike a terrible bargain to save a child. Marking a return to two of Englander’s classic themes, “Peep Show” and “How We Avenged the Blums” wrestle with sexual longing and ingenuity in the face of adversity and peril. And “Everything I Know About My Family on My Mother’s Side” is suffused with an intimacy and tenderness that break new ground for a writer who seems constantly to be expanding the parameters of what he can achieve in the short form.

Beautiful and courageous, funny and achingly sad, Englander’s work is a revelation.

About the Author

Nathan Englander’s short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and numerous anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories. Englander is the author of the novel The Ministry of Special Cases and the story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, which earned him a PEN/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

www.nathanenglander.com