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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.
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.