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Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir

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gave the book a B+, calling Auslander a "gifted writer", but concluding: "He's never going to find lunging after every sophomoric laugh."
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magazine also called it "hilarious", and gave the book three-out-of-four stars. Regarding it as "one of its best memoirs",
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called the tome "humorous, but burdened", and said that "the book ably captures the strain between elements of Judaism".
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magazine called the memoir "blackly funny". More conservatively,
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Abrahams, Andrew (October 29, 2007), "Foreskin's Lament".
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Reese, Jennifer (October 5, 2007), "Shtick Figure".
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ISBN
1-59448-955-6
OCLC
122425087
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
Beware of God: Stories
Shalom Auslander
ultra-Orthodox Jew
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This American Life
USA Today
People
Time
Entertainment Weekly
"Experience that 'very special gypped feeling'"
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2007 non-fiction books
American memoirs
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