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"S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) remains best known for his many sketches and essays penned for The New Yorker during its golden age of humor. Editor Adam Gopnik has selected the very best of them, including his parodies of books and films, his biting social satire, autobiographical pieces, and a se...
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New York, N.Y.
Library of America
[2021]
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"S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) remains best known for his many sketches and essays penned for The New Yorker during its golden age of humor. Editor Adam Gopnik has selected the very best of them, including his parodies of books and films, his biting social satire, autobiographical pieces, and a selection from the celebrated Cloudland Revisited series, in which Perelman reminisces nostalgically about books and movies encountered in youth before describing in his inimitable hyperkinetic style the rude shock of revisiting them as an adult. Also included in this volume are the acclaimed play The Beauty Part (1963); profiles of the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Parker, and his brother-in-law Nathanael West; and a selection of letters"--
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Geb. 23.21: angr34251.w956
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Library of America
; 346
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- 9781598536928
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