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Bruce Jay Friedman

Violencia!

A Musical Novel

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Bruce Jay Friedman is the reigning don of the ironic comic novel, a man of whom The New York Times has written, His writing is so funny -- and deceptively effortless -- critics often liken it to a stand-up comedy routine. Now he triumphantly returns to the form with Violencia!, a crackling satire of show-business pomposity, flimflam, and dreck in the spirit of Mel Brooks's The Producers. Paul Gurney is a struggling civilian clerk working the desk at a major New York homicide precinct who runs a department newsletter, The Homicider, that covers the goings-on at the precinct, dispenses advice, and disseminates interoffice gossip. But Gurney is… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8021-9741-2
  • EAN: 9780802197412
  • Produktnummer: 31916114
  • Verlag: Grove Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


Bruce Jay Friedman lives in New York City. A novelist, short story writer, playwright, memoirist, and screenwriter, he is the author of nineteen books, including Stern (1962), A Mother's Kisses (1964), The Lonely Guy's Book of Life (1978), and Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir (2011). His best-known works of stage and screen include the off-Broadway hit Steambath (1970) and the screenplays for Stir Crazy (1980) and Splash (1984), the latter of which received an Academy Award nomination. As editor of the anthology Black Humor (1965), Friedman helped popularize the distinctive literary style of that name in the United States and is widely regarded as one of its finest practitioners. According to the New York Times, his prose is a pure pleasure machine.

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