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And as often as not they find redemption as well as disaster.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50367339462929,"sku":"CIN0803293127G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0803293127.jpg?v=1765620323"},{"product_id":"bad-jews-stories-book-gerald-shapiro-9781581950120","title":"Bad Jews: Stories","description":"Bad Jews and Other Stories is a nuanced and comic vision of life, love, and spiritual adventurism among the determinedly secular class of contemporary American Jews. Separated from the character-building hardships endured by their parents and grandparents, unable to find a faith of their own or for that matter to believe in much of anything at all, the characters of Bad Jews and Other Stories wander through the moral landscape of their lives in a loopy version of the Children of Israel's meandering way home. Along the way they suffer a range of antic, often absurd misadventures. And as often as not they find redemption as well as disaster. Gerald Shapiro is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of From Hunger: Stories, editor of American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories (Nebraska 1998), and winner of the Ohio State University Short Fiction Prize for a collection of novellas and stories titled Little Men.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50392594645265,"sku":"CIN1581950128G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1581950128.jpg?v=1751245411"},{"product_id":"american-jewish-fiction-book-gerald-shapiro-9780803292529","title":"American Jewish Fiction","description":"This anthology presents an ambitious cross-section of Jewish American short fiction. It covers a full century of extraordinary writings, from turn-of-the-century immigrant fiction to stories by some of the finest young contemporary American writers. To read through its pages is to encounter a remarkable—and remarkably diverse—literary tradition.The volume opens with stories by two important immigrant writers from the early twentieth century, Abraham Cahan and Anzia Yezierska. There follows a generous selection of modern Jewish American stories by such celebrated authors as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow, Grace Paley, Tillie Olsen, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth. The collection concludes with a rich sampling of stories by contemporary writers whose works illustrate the impressive variety and vitality of recent Jewish American fiction.  Equally suited to scholars, students, and general readers, American Jewish Fiction provides an invaluable survey of literary works that have enriched and transformed American—and world—literature.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50453241561361,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50453243232529,"sku":"CIN080329252XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51686618988817,"sku":"CIN080329252XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52815648391441,"sku":"CIN080329252XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/080329252X.jpg?v=1750850074"},{"product_id":"little-men-book-gerald-shapiro-9780814257524","title":"Little Men","description":"\u003cp\u003eIra Mittelman, the middle-aged hero of A Box of Ashes, one of two novellas in \u003ci\u003eLittle Men, \u003c\/i\u003e is wrestling with a dilemma: should he fulfill his late father's dying wish by taking the old man's ashes back to Missouri, to scatter them on the grounds of Camp HaHaTonka, the Boy Scout camp where Ira spent several summers as a boy? 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