Author: Felicia Berliner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982177640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
“Hilarious and endearing...Shmutz is a dirty book with a pure heart.” —The New York Times In this witty, provocative, and “compulsively readable coming-of-age story” (Cosmopolitan), a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because of her secret addiction to porn. Like the other women in her ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn community, Raizl expects to find a husband through an arranged marriage. Unlike the other women, Raizl has a secret. With a hidden computer to help her complete her college degree, she falls down the slippery slope of online pornography. As Raizl dives deeper into the world of porn at night, her daytime life begins to unravel. Between combative visits with her shrink to complicated arranged dates, Raizl must balance her growing understanding of her sexuality with the expectations of the family she loves. “Clever, subversive, juicy, and surprising” (Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies), Shmutz explores what it means to be a fully realized sexual and spiritual being caught between the traditional and modern worlds.
Shmutz
Author: Felicia Berliner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982177640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
“Hilarious and endearing...Shmutz is a dirty book with a pure heart.” —The New York Times In this witty, provocative, and “compulsively readable coming-of-age story” (Cosmopolitan), a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because of her secret addiction to porn. Like the other women in her ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn community, Raizl expects to find a husband through an arranged marriage. Unlike the other women, Raizl has a secret. With a hidden computer to help her complete her college degree, she falls down the slippery slope of online pornography. As Raizl dives deeper into the world of porn at night, her daytime life begins to unravel. Between combative visits with her shrink to complicated arranged dates, Raizl must balance her growing understanding of her sexuality with the expectations of the family she loves. “Clever, subversive, juicy, and surprising” (Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies), Shmutz explores what it means to be a fully realized sexual and spiritual being caught between the traditional and modern worlds.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982177640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
“Hilarious and endearing...Shmutz is a dirty book with a pure heart.” —The New York Times In this witty, provocative, and “compulsively readable coming-of-age story” (Cosmopolitan), a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because of her secret addiction to porn. Like the other women in her ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn community, Raizl expects to find a husband through an arranged marriage. Unlike the other women, Raizl has a secret. With a hidden computer to help her complete her college degree, she falls down the slippery slope of online pornography. As Raizl dives deeper into the world of porn at night, her daytime life begins to unravel. Between combative visits with her shrink to complicated arranged dates, Raizl must balance her growing understanding of her sexuality with the expectations of the family she loves. “Clever, subversive, juicy, and surprising” (Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies), Shmutz explores what it means to be a fully realized sexual and spiritual being caught between the traditional and modern worlds.
Pennsylvania-German Stories, Prose & Poetry
Author: Harvey Monroe Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German-American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German-American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Three Complete Mysteries
Author: Kinky Friedman
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
ISBN: 9780517093283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
A fun-loving suspense-filled collection of three Manhattan mysteries featuring the wise-cracking country-western singer-turned-amateur sleuth, Kinky Friedman.
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
ISBN: 9780517093283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
A fun-loving suspense-filled collection of three Manhattan mysteries featuring the wise-cracking country-western singer-turned-amateur sleuth, Kinky Friedman.
The Last Pariahs
Author: Denise Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Shmutzy Girl
Author: Anne-Marie Baila Asner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975362907
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Even when she tries to keep clean, Shmutzy Girl is constantly so dirty she even leaves a ring around the swimming pool, but an encounter with Kvetchy Boy makes her realize something about herself"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975362907
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Even when she tries to keep clean, Shmutzy Girl is constantly so dirty she even leaves a ring around the swimming pool, but an encounter with Kvetchy Boy makes her realize something about herself"--
Roth Unbound
Author: Claudia Roth Pierpont
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374710449
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A critical evaluation of Philip Roth—the first of its kind—that takes on the man, the myth, and the work Philip Roth is one of the most renowned writers of our time. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award in 1960, and the explosion of Portnoy's Complaint in 1969 to his haunting reimagining of Anne Frank's story in The Ghost Writer ten years later and the series of masterworks starting in the mid-eighties—The Counterlife, Patrimony, Operation Shylock, Sabbath's Theater, American Pastoral, The HumanStain—Roth has produced some of the great American literature of the modern era. And yet there has been no major critical work about him until now. Here, at last, is the story of Roth's creative life. Roth Unbound is not a biography—though it contains a wealth of previously undisclosed biographical details and unpublished material—but something ultimately more rewarding: the exploration of a great writer through his art. Claudia Roth Pierpont, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has known Roth for nearly a decade. Her carefully researched and gracefully written account is filled with remarks from Roth himself, drawn from their ongoing conversations. Here are insights and anecdotes that will change the way many readers perceive this most controversial and galvanizing writer: a young and unhappily married Roth struggling to write; a wildly successful Roth, after the uproar over Portnoy, working to help writers from Eastern Europe and to get their books known in the West; Roth responding to the early, Jewish—and the later, feminist—attacks on his work. Here are Roth's family, his inspirations, his critics, the full range of his fiction, and his friendships with such figures as Saul Bellow and John Updike. Here is Roth at work and at play. Roth Unbound is a major achievement—a highly readable story that helps us make sense of one of the most vital literary careers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374710449
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A critical evaluation of Philip Roth—the first of its kind—that takes on the man, the myth, and the work Philip Roth is one of the most renowned writers of our time. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award in 1960, and the explosion of Portnoy's Complaint in 1969 to his haunting reimagining of Anne Frank's story in The Ghost Writer ten years later and the series of masterworks starting in the mid-eighties—The Counterlife, Patrimony, Operation Shylock, Sabbath's Theater, American Pastoral, The HumanStain—Roth has produced some of the great American literature of the modern era. And yet there has been no major critical work about him until now. Here, at last, is the story of Roth's creative life. Roth Unbound is not a biography—though it contains a wealth of previously undisclosed biographical details and unpublished material—but something ultimately more rewarding: the exploration of a great writer through his art. Claudia Roth Pierpont, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has known Roth for nearly a decade. Her carefully researched and gracefully written account is filled with remarks from Roth himself, drawn from their ongoing conversations. Here are insights and anecdotes that will change the way many readers perceive this most controversial and galvanizing writer: a young and unhappily married Roth struggling to write; a wildly successful Roth, after the uproar over Portnoy, working to help writers from Eastern Europe and to get their books known in the West; Roth responding to the early, Jewish—and the later, feminist—attacks on his work. Here are Roth's family, his inspirations, his critics, the full range of his fiction, and his friendships with such figures as Saul Bellow and John Updike. Here is Roth at work and at play. Roth Unbound is a major achievement—a highly readable story that helps us make sense of one of the most vital literary careers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Who We are
Author: Derek Rubin
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Spanning three generations of Jewish writing in America, these essays--by turns nostalgic, comic, poignant, and provocative--give fascinating insights into the thinking and the work of some of America's most important contemporary writers.
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Spanning three generations of Jewish writing in America, these essays--by turns nostalgic, comic, poignant, and provocative--give fascinating insights into the thinking and the work of some of America's most important contemporary writers.
Jewish-American Literature
Author: Abraham Chapman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
The Ghetto and Beyond
Author: Peter I. Rose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Jewish 1960s
Author: Michael E. Staub
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A collection of primary sources about Jewish contributions to and involvement in the tumultuous social transformations of the 1960s.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A collection of primary sources about Jewish contributions to and involvement in the tumultuous social transformations of the 1960s.