Sitcom - Couverture souple

McGimpsey, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1552451887 ISBN 13 : 9781552451885

Editeur : Coach House Books, 2004

Synopsis

Implicating extremes from Coriolanus to Karen Carpenter, David McGimpsey's Sitcom is both serious poetry and a work of comedy.

Where Timon of Athens meets Shania Twain, that's where you'll find Sitcom. Mischievous, generous and side-splittingly funny, this collection of wry soliloquies and sonnets begins with a milestone birthday and finds itself in demi-mondes as varied as the offices of university regents and the basic plot arc of Hawaii Five-O - offering, along the way, a sincere contemplation of mortality and the fashion sense of Mary Tyler Moore. In between, you'll find Auden, Arthur Carlson, oper, Girls Gone Wild and the lead from Suddenly Susan's turn as a creative writing student.

Unembarrassed by its literary allusions or its hi-lo hybridity, Sitcom's strategic and encompassing voice is prepared for each comedic disaster and is, somehow, always ready for next week's episode.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David McGimpsey is a poet and author born and raised in Montreal. He has a PhD in English literature and is the author of the award-winning study Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture. His travel writings frequently appear in the Globe and Mail and he writes the "Sandwich of the Month" column for EnRoute magazine. He teaches at Concordia University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Coach House Books
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1552451887
• ISBN 13: 9781552451885
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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