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The Tumblers

A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

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 A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, in which Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for the death camps and, in a deft, imaginative twist, turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm’s way. FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES is a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.” –The New York Times Book Review
 ©1999 Nathan Englander; (P)2007 Random House Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House Inc. Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Short Stories
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