Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 583 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781598536935
Series Statement:
Library of America 346
Content:
Introduction: Perelman, the Pearl of Providence /by Adam Gopnik --Sketches and Satires.Puppets of passion: a throbbing story of youth's hot revolt against the conventions --Those charming people: the latest report on the Weinbloom reptile expedition --Scenario --Strictly from hunger --The love decoy: a story of youth in college today-awake, fearless, unashamed --Waiting for Santy: a Christmas playlet --Frou-frou, or the future of vertigo --Captain future, block that kick! --Midwinter facial trends --Counter-revolution --Beat me, post-impressionist Daddy --A pox on you, mine goodly host --Bend down, sister --Beauty and the bee --Button, button, who's got the blend? --Swing out, sweet chariot --A couple of quick ones: two portraits --Hell in the Gabardines --Farewell, my lovely appetizer --Hit him again, he's sober --Physician, steel thyself --Take two parts sand, one part girl, and stir --Sleepy-time extra --Amo, Amas, Amat, Amamus, Amatis, enough! --Send no money, honey --Acres and pains: chapter one --Acres and pains: chapter twelve --Don't bring me Oscars (when it's shoesies that I need --Rancors aweigh --Mama don't want no rice --Columbia, the crumb of the ocean --Whenas in sulks my Julia goes --Cloudland revisited: why, doctor, what big green eyes you have! --Chewies the goat but flicks need hypo --Salesman, spare that psyche --The song is endless, but the malady lingers on --A girl and a boy anthropoid were dancing --Cloudland revisited: rock-a-bye, viscount, in the treetop --Cloudland revisited: when to the sessions of sweet silent films --No starch in the Dhoti, Sʹil vous plaît --Cloudland revisited: the wickedest woman in Larchmont --Swindle sheet with blueblood engrailed, arrant fibs rampant --Cloudland revisited: I'm sorry I made me cry --Sorry- no phone or mail orders --Next week at the Prado: Frankie Goya plus monster cast --You're my everything, plus city sales tax --Eline Kleine Mothmusik --Where do you work-a, John? --Portrait of the artist as a young mime --This is the forest primeval --Impresario on the Lam --Revulsion in the desert --Are you decent, Memsahib? --Tell me clear, parachutist dear, are you man or mouse? --Sex and the single boy --A soft answer turneth away royalties --Hello, central, give me that jolly old pelf --The sweet chick gone --Nobody knows the rubble I've seen/nobody knows but croesus --Three loves had I, in assorted flavors --Be a cat's-paw! Lose big money! --Moonstruck at sunset.
Content:
The beauty part: a comedy in two acts --The hindsight saga: three fragments from an autobiography.The Marx Brothers --Nathanael West --Dorothy Parker --Selected letters.To Edmund Wilson (September 2, 1929) --To I.J. Kapstein (October 9, 1930) --To Groucho Marx (April 7, 1943) --To Frances and Albert Hackett (August 14, 1949) --To Abby Perelman (April 15, 1954) --To Leila Hadley (August 21, 1955) --To Leila Hadley (September 16, 1955) --To Betsy Drake (September 28, 1955) --To Leila Hadley (August 25, 1956) --To Leila Hadley (November 22, 1956) --To Paul Theroux (October 18, 1976) --To Paul Theroux (December 24, 1976)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1598536931
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781598536928
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Perelman, Sidney J., 1904 - 1979 Writings New York : The Library of America, 2021 ISBN 9781598536928
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
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