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Foreskin's Lament |
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| Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 320 pages | ISBN 9781594483332 | 07 Oct 2008 | Riverhead | 18 - AND UP |
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A New York Times Notable Book, and a “chaotic, laugh riot”(San Francisco Chronicle) of a memoir— first time in trade paperback.
Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up and was estranged from his community, his religion and its traditions, he could not find the path to a life where he didn’t struggle daily with the fear of God’s formidable wrath. Foreskin’s Lament reveals Auslander’s “painfully, cripplingly, incurably, miserably religious” youth in a strict, socially isolated Orthodox community, and recounts his rebellion and efforts to make a new life apart from it. His combination of unrelenting humor and anger renders a rich and fascinating portrait of a man grappling with his faith and family.
“Fierce, funny, and subversively heartfelt...With his middle finger pointed at the heavens and a hand held over his heart, Auslander gives us Foreskin’s Lament. Mazel tov to him. And God? Well, he’ll survive.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Auslander writes like Philip Roth’s angry nephew... a scathing theological rant, a funny, oddly moving coming-of-age memoir, and an irreverent meditation on family, marriage, and cultural identity. God may be a bit irritated by this book, but I loved it.”
—Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher
“A laugh-out-loud quarrel with God.”
—Newsweek
“A terrific book I was sad I read in so few sittings, because I wanted more.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Hilarious, caustic, and surprisingly moving.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
“Blasphemous and funny.”
— Newsweek
“A surprise and delight.”
—Boston Globe
“A fretful, self-effacing, bitter…hilarious story.”
—The Houston Chronicle
“Wryly comic.”
—New York Magazine
“Hilarious, caustic, and surprisingly moving.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
“A very funny memoir.”
—GQ
“Lyrical, hysterical… funny and angry.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“An audacious, poke-God-in-theeye memoir.”
—Miami Herald
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