Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings (LOA #244)
At the height of the Jazz Age, Ring Lardner was America's most beloved humorist, equally admired by a popular audience and by literary friends like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson. A sports writer who became a sensation with his comic baseball bestseller, You Know Me Al, Lardner had a rare gift for inspired nonsense and an ear attuned to the rhythms and hilarious oddities of American speech. He was also a sharp and dispassionate observer of the American scene. His best stories-among them such masterpieces as Haircut, The Golden Honeymoon, A Caddy's Diary, and The Love Nest-cast a devastating eye on the hypocrisies, prejudices, and petty…
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Weitere Autoren: Frazier, Ian (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-59853-282-1
- EAN: 9781598532821
- Produktnummer: 17567375
- Verlag: Library of America
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 974 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'390 KB
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Ian Frazier is a writer and humorist and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. He is the author of Travels in Siberia, Great Plains, On the Rez, Lamentations of the Father, and Coyote v. Acme, among other acclaimed works. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.
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