Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces - Brossura

De Vries, Peter

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ISBN 10: 022617106X ISBN 13: 9780226171067

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2014

Riassunto

Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbiathe school of John Updike and Cheeverthis work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort.Without a Stitch in Time, a selection of forty-six articles and stories written for the New Yorker between 1943 and 1973, offers pun-filled autobiographical vignettes that reveal the source of De Vries’s nervous wit: the cognitive dissonance between his Calvinist upbringing in 1920s Chicago and the all-too-perfect postwar world. Noted as much for his verbal fluidity and wordplay as for his ability to see humor through pain, De Vries will delight both new readers and old in this uproarious modern masterpiece.

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L'autore:

Peter De Vries (191093) was the man responsible for contributing to the cultural vernacular such witticisms as Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be” and Deep down, he’s shallow.” He was the author of many books, including the classics Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 022617106X
• ISBN 13: 9780226171067
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336