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Slouching Towards Kalamazoo

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Author : Peter De Vries
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022614920X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Slouching Towards Kalamazoo written by Peter De Vries and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic American coming of age novel of a precocious young man and the lessons learned from his tutor by “a masterly entertainer and social satirist” (The New York Times). It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but not enough time studying the War of 1812 or obtuse triangles. A tutor is hired, and this "modern Hester Prynne" offers Anthony lessons that ultimately free him from eighth grade and situate her on the cusp of the American sexual revolution. In Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Peter De Vries finds the perfect vehicle for his eridute wit in Anthony’s restless adolescent voice. Demonstrating a fascination with both language and female anatomy, Anthony’s pitch-perfect narration propels this satirical coming of age tale through theological debates and quandaries both dermatological and ethical, while soaring on the De Vriesian hallmark of scrambling conventional wisdom for comic effect.

Slouching Towards Kalamazoo

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Author : Peter De Vries
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316181723
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Slouching Towards Kalamazoo written by Peter De Vries and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underachiever Anthony Thrasher gets his eighth-grade teacher, Miss Doubloon, pregnant only to fall for luscious nursemaid Bubbles Breedlove, in a ribald tale of the sexual revolution

Slouching Towards Kalamazoo

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Author : Outlet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517493885
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book Slouching Towards Kalamazoo written by Outlet and published by . This book was released on 1985-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tunnel of Love

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Author : Peter De Vries
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617347X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Tunnel of Love written by Peter De Vries and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Tunnel of Love "is a goofy situation comedy involving suburban neighbors who know too much about each other s private lives. The narrator is an upstanding commuting family man who, faced with awkward situations, plays sick, has small fits of rage, or babbles something inappropriate and/or witty. Like the author, he works on cartoons published in a New York magazine, and uses humor to deal with stress. The plot includes an officious lady employed by an adoption agency, and the confused identities of babies. A pointed satire of suburban life, it is also a retro, lively romp, and more cheerful than some of the De Vries s later novels set in this world. "

Sauce for the Goose

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Author : Peter De Vries
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140062816
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Sauce for the Goose written by Peter De Vries and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1982 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blood of the Lamb

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Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Blood of the Lamb written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flinders University Drama Centre Programs.

The Cat's Pajamas and Witch's Milk

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Author : Peter De Vries
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497669626
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Cat's Pajamas and Witch's Milk written by Peter De Vries and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twin tales of middle-class hilarity and despair from the writer who was dubbed “America’s preeminent comic novelist” by the New York Times When college professor Hank Tattersall sees his former flame, Lucy Stiles, at a campus concert, it sets off a chain reaction that results in one of the funniest and most unforgettable exit scenes in American literature—involving a locked door, an alcoholic dog, and a punning doppelgänger. The Cat’s Pajamas is the story of how Tattersall, a scrupulous self-reflector, falls from point A to point Z, rushing through a host of identities and indignities along the way. The unexamined life may not be worth living, he discovers, but the examined one is hardly a bed of roses. In Witch’s Milk, Tillie Seltzer has her own trials to attend to. Chief among them is her marriage to Pete, the kind of guy who tucks a cigarette behind his ear and calls everybody Frisbee. When they first met, Tillie had more sophisticated tastes—dark strangers, homburg hats—but she was also a thirtysomething virgin whose prospects weren’t getting any better. When she cracked a joke about the honeymoon being over, Pete believed her. Now stuck in suburbia with a sick child and a philandering husband, Tillie takes a hard look in the rearview mirror. Her search for an escape route will lead her to the most unexpected place of all. These short novels are linked by Tillie’s cameo appearance in Hank’s narrative and by the thrilling blend of satire, tragedy, and philosophy that defines the one-of-a-kind fiction of Peter De Vries.

Reuben, Reuben

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Author : Peter De Vries
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617056X
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Reuben, Reuben written by Peter De Vries and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reuben Reuben "is set in mid 1950s suburbia in Connecticut and starts out being told from the point of view of a grumpy but corruptible chicken farmer. The novel s second part recounts what happens when a womanizing poet from Wales (clearly Dylan Thomas) visits this new-to-him world of tidy lawns and cocktail parties and liberated lady poets. In the final third, a British poet/agent named Mopworth continues the story of the confused suburban literati. Fast-paced, devastating, energetic, and laugh-out-loud funny, it also has a manic note to it, as if the author were Scheherazade-like; being compulsively entertainingscrambling to amuse the reader with stories and jokes lest serious questions arise."

Let Me Count the Ways

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Author : Peter De Vries
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 149766960X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Let Me Count the Ways written by Peter De Vries and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sins of the father are hilariously visited on the son in this witty and profound novel about the meaning of it all Stanley Waltz is a Polish American piano mover and pugnacious atheist married to a born-again believer. His heroes are H. L. Mencken and Clarence Darrow, and if he confuses “illusion” with “allusion” and thinks a certain style of egg is “bedeviled,” that does not mean his reasoning is any less sound. Unfortunately, his wife is immune to his intellect and insists not just on saving his soul but on taking their son, Tom, to the local gospel mission every chance she gets. It is enough to drive a man into the arms of a mistress “funny as a crutch and twice as perceptive”—and that is exactly where Stan goes. This leaves Tom twice as mixed up as the average son. In the second section of this side-splitting and thought-provoking comedy, he is a professor of English at the local college, his questions about faith, doubt, and morality as unresolved as they are inescapable. As an undergraduate, he stumbled from girl to girl, breaking up with one because she was a nonbeliever, another because she was too pious. His marriage to a beautiful professor of comparative religion is no solution. In short order, he has an affair, breaks his leg, leads a funeral procession hopelessly astray, and suffers a nervous breakdown. Only a miracle can save him—if he can figure out what one might look like. Stanley and Tom Waltz are a father-son duo unlike any other, and Let Me Count the Ways is Peter De Vries at his insightful, brilliant, lightning-witted best.

A Craftsman’s Legacy

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Author : Eric Gorges
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616208368
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book A Craftsman’s Legacy written by Eric Gorges and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book for makers, for seekers of all kinds, an exhilarating look into the heart and soul of artisans—and how their collective wisdom can inspire us all. "Despite our technological advances, we’re busier than ever, our lives more frazzled. That’s why the handmade object, created with care and detail, embodying a history and a tradition, is enormously powerful. It can cut through so much and speak in ways that we don’t often hear, or that we’ve forgotten." —Eric Gorges, from A Craftsman’s Legacy In this joyful celebration of skilled craftsmen, Eric Gorges, a corporate-refugee-turned-metal-shaper, taps into a growing hunger to get back to what’s real. Through visits with fellow artisans—calligraphers, potters, stone carvers, glassblowers, engravers, woodworkers, and more—many of whom he’s profiled for his popular television program, Gorges identifies values that are useful for all of us: taking time to slow down and enjoy the process, embracing failure, knowing when to stop and when to push through, and accepting that perfection is an illusion. Most of all, A Craftsman’s Legacy shows how all of us can embrace a more creative and authentic life and learn to focus on doing what we love.

The Tunnel of Love

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Author : Peter De Vries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Tunnel of Love written by Peter De Vries and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The hilarious bestseller about philandering husbands."--Cover

Spherical Models

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Author : Magnus J. Wenninger
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486143651
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Spherical Models written by Magnus J. Wenninger and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-illustrated, practical approach to creating star-faced spherical forms that can serve as basic structures for geodesic domes. Complete instructions for making models from circular bands of paper with just a ruler and compass. 1979 edition.

Mrs. Wallop

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Author : Peter De Vries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Wallop written by Peter De Vries and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)

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Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8074843955
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions) written by Ambrose Bierce and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The book is a classic satire in the form of a dictionary on which Bierce worked for decades. It was originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book before being retitled in 1911. A number of the definitions are accompanied by satiric verses, many of which are signed with comic pseudonyms. It offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language which lampoon cant and political double-talk as well as other aspects of human foolishness and frailty. The definitions provide satirical, witty and often politically pointed representations of the words that is seeks to "define". The Devil's Dictionary has inspired many imitations both in its day and more recently. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 – 1914?) was an American satirist, critic, poet, editor and journalist. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce".

English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

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Author : John Matthews Manly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) written by John Matthews Manly and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Vale of Laughter

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Author : Peter De Vries
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497669618
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Vale of Laughter written by Peter De Vries and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, fiercely funny novel that ponders the eternal question: is it better to laugh or cry? Joe Sandwich is a clown. Not literally, but what else do you call an eleven-year-old who goes to church to confess his good deeds: “I did my homework without being told”? A stockbroker who gets seasick watching the market tape and claims the gross national product is “deodorants”? A father who mows curse words into his lawn and names his son Hamilton because, well, who can resist a Ham Sandwich? Prankster, punster, cut-up, card—Joe needs to crack wise about everything. Has he figured out the secret to embracing the inherent absurdity of life, or is there some terrible anxiety at the root of his compulsion? Lots of people want to know, including his wife, Naughty, who is anything but; his mistress, Gloria Bunshaft; and her husband, Wally Hines, a humorless professor who specializes is the philosophy of humor. “If you look back,” says Joe, “you turn into a pillar of salt. If you look ahead, you turn into a pillar of society.” He prefers to live in the moment, from one gag to the next, but the joke he doesn’t see coming may get the biggest laugh of all.

Forever Panting

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Author : Peter De Vries
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140061888
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Forever Panting written by Peter De Vries and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1982 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: