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Loading... The World of S.J.Perelman (Prion Humour Classics)by S. J. Perelman
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Tremendously witty and highly entertaining read. Perelman's whimsical and often surreal humour shine through in a series of short pieces offering wry observations of life (particularly life in new York). His stylistic successor - Woody Allen - offers an introduction. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Entering the warped world of S.J. Perelman is an experience. Written mainly for New Yorker magazine from the 1930s onwards, his sketches made reckless guerilla forays behind enemy lines to expose the absurdities of modern life and bring succour to that most persecuted minority of all: the embattled sane. A scalpel-keen satirist and parodist, he assembled a baroque range of registers and genres to lampoon the pretentions and inanities of the new language of popular culture wherever he found it - in advertising, publishing, magazines, movies, television and newspapers. But, more often than not, it is Perelman's own mock-sombre and eternally put-upon fictional persona who is the undoubted star of these sketches. While all he craves is a little peace and sanity, he is continually pushed closer to the edge by the steady stream of those sent to try him: movie moguls, the Marx brothers, Broadway impressarios, dry cleaners, house painters, insurance salesmen, au pairs, dentists and second-hand car dealers. No library descriptions found. |
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