Foreskin's Lament

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2009
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Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up, defying and eventually being cast out of his community, he could not find his way to a life in which he wasn't locked in a daily struggle with Him. Foreskin's Lament is a rich and fascinating portrait of a man grappling with his faith, his family and his community. Bracing and witty ...Never, frankly, can there have been a more blasphemous book ...Foreskin's Lament somehow expresses the ideas of Richard Dawkins in the tone of David Sedaris. You can read it for the humour, you can read it as reportage into a secretive and bizarre world, you can read it as a personal tale of triumph over adversity, or you can just read it for the misery. It doesn't really matter. But do read it' William Sutcliffe, Independent on Sunday One of the funniest books I've ever read, killingly so' Hilary Spurling, Observer Exceptional ...very, very funny' Time Out Painfully poignant and hilariously noir' Jewish Chronicle By turns hilarious and devastating ...Few books are laugh-out-loud funny. This one is' Naomi Alderman, Sunday Times America's hottest, funniest, most controversial young Jewish memoirist ...blackly hilarious, groundbreaking' The Times

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Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up, defying and eventually being cast out of his community, he could not find his way to a life in which he wasn't locked in a daily struggle with Him. Foreskin's Lament is a rich and fascinating portrait of a man grappling with his faith, his family and his community. Bracing and witty ...Never, frankly, can there have been a more blasphemous book ...Foreskin's Lament somehow expresses the ideas of Richard Dawkins in the tone of David Sedaris. You can read it for the humour, you can read it as reportage into a secretive and bizarre world, you can read it as a personal tale of triumph over adversity, or you can just read it for the misery. It doesn't really matter. But do read it' William Sutcliffe, Independent on Sunday One of the funniest books I've ever read, killingly so' Hilary Spurling, Observer Exceptional ...very, very funny' Time Out Painfully poignant and hilariously noir' Jewish Chronicle By turns hilarious and devastating ...Few books are laugh-out-loud funny. This one is' Naomi Alderman, Sunday Times America's hottest, funniest, most controversial young Jewish memoirist ...blackly hilarious, groundbreaking' The Times

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 321
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Picador
Published: 06 Feb 2009
ISBN 10: 0330453548
ISBN 13: 9780330453547

Media Reviews

aFierce, funny, and subversively heartfelt...With his middle finger pointed at the heavens and a hand held over his heart, Auslander gives us Foreskinas Lament, Mazel tov to him. And God? Well, heall survive.a a New York Times Book Review aAuslander writes like Philip Rothas 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.a aTom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher aA laugh-out-loud quarrel with God.a a Newsweek aA terrific book I was sad I read in so few sittings, because I wanted more.a a San Francisco Chronicle aHilarious, caustic, and surprisingly moving.a a Philadelphia Inquirer aBlasphemous and funny.a a Newsweek aA surprise and delight.a a Boston Globe aA fretful, self-effacing, bittera]hilarious story.a a The Houston Chronicle aWryly comic.a a New York Magazine aHilarious, caustic, and surprisingly moving.a a Philadelphia Inquirer aA very funny memoir.a a GQ aLyrical, hystericala] funny and angry.a a Cleveland Plain Dealer aAn audacious, poke-God-in-theeye memoir.a a Miami Herald

Author Bio

Shalom Auslander's short story collection, Beware of God, was published by Picador in 2005. He lives in New York.