Lennie Lower (1903–1947)
Auteur de Here's Luck
Œuvres de Lennie Lower
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- Nom légal
- Lower, Leonard Waldemere
- Date de naissance
- 1903-09-24
- Date de décès
- 1947-07-10
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia
- Lieu du décès
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Professions
- humourist
journalist
swagman
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- Œuvres
- 5
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 83
- Popularité
- #218,811
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 19
Freaking hilarious. Here's Luck was a complete sensation when it was published in Australia in 1930, and propelled Lennie Lower to a decade of ceaseless comedy writing in books and newspaper columns.
This is a darn funny series of sketches, really, hung around the loose plot of a father and son pair who are generally no good, gambling, drinking, and verbally abusing the women around them. Lower's descriptions are David Sedaris-level amusing.
I'm always worried, reading these kind of books, at how the women will be portrayed. Not that we can do much about the general sidelining of wives and mothers in this era (and the invisibility of all other women aside from the coquette) but sometimes it becomes too much. Thankfully, as the quote above shows, the women here are able to return fire just as strongly. Lower is aware of the lunacy and mental poverty of his men even as he deifies them.… (plus d'informations)