E. B. White
Christmas at The New Yorker
Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
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From the pages of America's most influential magazine come eight decades of holiday cheer-plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking-in one incomparable collection. Sublime and ridiculous, sentimental and searing, Christmas at The New Yorker is a gift of great writing and drawing by literary legends and laugh-out-loud cartoonists. Here are seasonal stories, poems, memoirs, and more, including such classics as John Cheever's 1949 story Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor, about an elevator operator in a Park Avenue apartment building who experiences the fickle power of charity; John Updike's The Carol Sing, in which a group of sma…
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From the pages of America's most influential magazine come eight decades of holiday cheer-plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking-in one incomparable collection. Sublime and ridiculous, sentimental and searing, Christmas at The New Yorker is a gift of great writing and drawing by literary legends and laugh-out-loud cartoonists. Here are seasonal stories, poems, memoirs, and more, including such classics as John Cheever's 1949 story Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor, about an elevator operator in a Park Avenue apartment building who experiences the fickle power of charity; John Updike's The Carol Sing, in which a group of small-town carolers remember an exceptionally enthusiastic fellow singer (How he would jubilate, how he would God-rest those merry gentlemen, how he would boom out when the male voices became King Wenceslas); and Richard Ford's acerbic and elegiac 1998 story Crèche, in which an unmarried Hollywood lawyer spends an unsettling holiday with her sister' s estranged husband and kids. Here, too, are S. J. Perelman's 1936 Waiting for Santy, a playlet in the style of Clifford Odets labor drama (the setting: The sweatshop of Santa Claus, North Pole), and Vladimir Nabokov's heartbreaking 1975 story Christ-mas, in which a father grieving for his lost son in a world ghastly with sadness sees a tiny miracle on Christmas Eve. And it wouldn't be Christmas-or The New Yorker-without dozens of covers and cartoons by Addams, Arno, Chast, and others, or the mischievous verse of Roger Angell, Calvin Trillin, and Ogden Nash (Do you know Mrs. Millard Fillmore Revere?/On her calendar, Christmas comes three hundred and sixty-five times a year). From Jazz Age to New Age, E. B. White to Garrison Keillor, these works represent eighty years of wonderful keepsakes for Christmas, from The New Yorker to you.
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Weitere Autoren: Benson, Sally / Perelman, S. J.
- ISBN: 978-0-307-48291-4
- EAN: 9780307482914
- Produktnummer: 15729576
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 20'070 KB
- Abbildungen: ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT
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The New Yorker began publishing in 1925.John Updike was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.
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