Barbara Davilman

Yiddish with George and Laura

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What do George and Laura Bush have in common with Dick and Jane? Well, both hail from prototypical WASP families. And, perhaps more to the point, both exhibit a natural resistance to moral complexity (i.e., reality). That's the premise of this hilarious new primer-style book in which George, Laura, and the entire Bush family communicate with uncharacteristic expressiveness, conveying shades of of feeling and nuances of meaning that plain old English can't deliver -- by peppering their conversatuon with Yiddishisms. See George's mother. Her name is Bar. She wears a lot of pearls and is a farbisseneh. You are late, George, Bar says. Of co… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Weiner, Ellis

ISBN: 978-0-316-05020-3
EAN: 9780316050203
Produktnummer: 22795111
Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 300 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'901 KB

Über den Autor

Ellis Weiner is the only person, dead or alive, who has published in the National Lampoon (where he was an editor), Spy (where he wrote a column), and The New Yorker (where he still appears). He is co-author, with Barbara Davilman, of Yiddish With Dick and Jane, Yiddish With George and Laura, How to Raise a Jewish Dog, The Big Jewish Book for Jews, and other titles. He is founder and editor-in-chief of the Sherman Oaks Review of Books, a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books, which debuted in 2016. Barbara Davilman writes for television. They live in Los Angeles.