Hope: a Tragedy: A Novel

by Shalom Auslander

Book Overview

The bestselling debut novel from Shalom Auslander, the darkly comic author of Foreskin's Lament and Beware of God . Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. It is a comic and compelling story of the hopeless longing to be free of those pasts that haunt our every present. The rural town of Stockton, New York, is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594486468
• ISBN13: 9781594486463
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher