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Chargement... The Last Laughpar S. J. Perelman
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The Last Laugh, is, as its title suggests, the last of S. J. Perelman's twenty books. It contains seventeen pieces never before collected, in addition to the opening chapters of the author's uncompleted autobiography, The Hindsight Saga The Last Laugh shows the master humorist at his very best, displaying his incomparable gift for ridicule, dazzling verbal effects, polished style, and keen observation. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Most of this collection of articles appeared in the New Yorker, but the "Hindsight Saga" is published here for the first time. We love Perelman for his malicious humor and lunacy. Perelman writes about the real world, but he looks for and finds the bizarre. You can find here the soul of the man invited to Hollywood to write jokes for the Marx Brothers. He had a reputation among devoted friends for complicated orchestrations of fiascos.
Perelman died in 1979, at 74, perhaps the last of the writers capable of writing for the highest common denominators among the "booboisie". Few writers can insert "Bowditch", "quahogs", "shagreen", "nainsook", "oppidan", or the verb "swan" into a yarn about a jaunt around his living room. ( )