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De Vries, Peter

 
9780226171067: Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 022617106X ISBN 13 : 9780226171067
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2014

Synopsis

Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this 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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À propos de l'auteur

Peter De Vries (1910-1993), 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," was, according to Kingsley Amis, "the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic." But De Vries's life and work was informed as much by sorrow as by wit.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
022617106X
ISBN 13 
9780226171067
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
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Personne responsable
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