My Life and Hard Times - Couverture rigide

Thurber, James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1853753971 ISBN 13 : 9781853753978

Editeur : Prion Books Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

He narrates in bewildered deadpan the eccentric goings on of his family and the town beyond. It is a world with its own logic, full of the absurd anxieties and hilarious paranoias of everyday lving that Thurber made his own.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In My Life and Hard Times, Thurber returns to his starting point--the delightful chaos and frustrations brought on by family, boyhood, youth, odd dogs, and recalcitrant machinery in the quiet university town of his birth.

This is one of the most deeply humorous books of our century. Not only is it a "memoir" that takes into account the crumbling of empires, it talks "largely about small matters and smally about great affairs." Mostly it is about the widely incredible things people do when they think they are acting sensibly. Yet Thurber does more than just tickle your funny bone. He has quietly and unobtrusively, but permanently, deflated your false pride in the essential sanity and prudence of the human race.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that defined his famous sketches and writings. In My Life and Hard times, first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful chaos and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth odd dogs, recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prion Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1853753971
• ISBN 13: 9781853753978
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Thurber James
• Nombre de pages: 140
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible