American Cornball
A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny
Christopher Miller's American Cornball is an indispensable history of our shared legacy of forgotten humor by one of our wittiest cultural observers; it's also that rare book on humor that is as entertaining as its subject (Publishers Weekly). From hiccups and henpecked husbands to outhouses and old maids, Miller revisits nearly two hundred comic staples, their (often unseemly) origins, their cultural roots, and what they reveal about American society. The result is a grand tour of the world we came from and too often forget—a world of black and white, highborn and lowbrow, witty and wacky, the awkward and the sublime.Complete with more than…
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- ISBN: 978-0-06-222518-4
- EAN: 9780062225184
- Produktnummer: 19156183
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 544 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Über den Autor
Christopher Miller is the author of the novels The Cardboard Universe, a Huffington Post Best Book of the Year and finalist for the Believer Book of the Year Award, and Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects, a Seattle Times Best Book of the Year. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland.
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