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Simon & Schuster
April 2006
On Sale: March 28, 2006
208 pages
ISBN: 0743264576
EAN: 9780743264570
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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 an 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.
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