You Know Me Al - Couverture souple

Lardner, Ring

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252062302 ISBN 13 : 9780252062308

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 1992

Synopsis

The publication of You Know Me Al brought instant fame to Ring
Lardner (1885-1933), one of the great American humorists of this century.
Considered the satirist's greatest work, the book is a collection of letters
from one Jack Keefe, a baseball "busher," to his longtime friend,
Al Blanchard, in their midwestern hometown.
The voice of Jack Keefe perfectly echoes the vernacular of the baseball
players Lardner had covered for years as a newspaper reporter following
the exploits of Chicago's Cubs and White Sox. Readers instantly recognized
in Jack the full range of human foibles. This universality accounts for
the enduring appeal of You Know Me Al.
"Ring Lardner is the idol of professional humorists and of plenty
of other people, too."
-- E. B. White
"His work is a contribution of genuine and permanent value to the
national literature."
-- H. L. Mencken
"Mr. Lardner . . . lets Jack Keefe the baseball player cut out his
own outline until the figure of the foolish, boastful, innocent athlete
lives with us."
-- Virginia Woolf

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

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1. Font adjustments & biography included
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3. Illustrated

About You Know Me Al by Ring Lardner

In the early decades of the twentieth century, newspaperman and humorist Ring Lardner (1885–1933) made America laugh with his hilarious depictions of odd characters in the sporting world, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood. His first great success was You Know Me Al, a fictional series of letters from a popular baseball hero to his friend, slyly revealing the letter writer as a crude, conceited, semiliterate, self-deceiving boob. The letters, created while Lardner was writing a sports column for The Chicago Tribune, first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and were later published in book form in 1918. You Know Me Al reveals Lardner as a satirical master at the peak of his form: a fine albeit misanthropic storyteller with a superb feel for the niceties of characters and speech and a sure instinct for provoking laughter.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252062302
• ISBN 13: 9780252062308
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible