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The Twenty-Seventh Man

A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

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The Twenty-Seventh Man

Written by: Nathan Englander
Narrated by: Paul Michael
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In this short story from Nathan Englander's collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a clerical error lands earnest, unpublished Pinchas Pelovits in prison with 26 other writers.

©1999 Nathan Englander (P)2007 Random House Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House Inc.
Anthologies & Short Stories Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction
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