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Design Category
Book design, 1998
Design firm
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, New York)
Collection
(1999) 50 Books/50 Covers of 1998
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The title story of this collection refers to the unbearable urge that a married, Orthodox Jewish man has to make love to his wife. But she won’t let him. In a large view, the entire volume of stories, the unbearable urge is to weep, to weep over human sorry, which the author lightly brushes up against in each piece. So the stains are really caused by tears.