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1 online resource (165 pages) |
Contents |
About the Author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Year One; Suddenly, the Same Thing; Big Baby; Call and Response; The Way We War; Year Two; Yours Insincerely; Flight Meditation; Strange Bedfellows; Defender of the People; Requiem for a Dream; Long View; Year Three; Throwdown at the Playground; Swede Dreams; Matchstick War; Idol Worship; Year Four; Bombs Away; What Does the Man Say?; My Lamented Sister; Bird's Eye; Year Five; Imaginary Homeland; Fat Cats; Poser; Just Another Sinner; My First Story; Last Man Standing; Bemusement Park; Year Six; Ground Up |
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SleepoverBoys Don't Cry; Accident; A Moustache for my Son; Love at First Whiskey; Year Seven; Shiva; In My Father's Footsteps; Jam; Fare and Good; Pastrami |
Summary |
A brilliant, hilarious memoir from a master storyteller Over the last seven years, Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to worry. His son, Lev, was born during a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. His father became sick. And he has been constantly tormented by nightmarish visions of former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, anti-Semitic remarks both real and imagined, and, perhaps most worrisome of all, a dogged telemarketer who seems likely to chase him to the grave. Emerging from these darkly absurd circumstances is a series of funny, touching ruminations on everything from his three-year-o |
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Keret, Etgar, 1967-
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Keret, Etgar, 1967- |
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Authors, Israeli -- Biography
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Personal Memoirs.
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Literary.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
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HUMOR.
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Essays.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS.
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Authors, Israeli
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781925113624 |
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1925113620 |
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