| Description |
xxi, 583 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The Library of America series ; 346
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Library of America ; 346.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
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Beauty part: a comedy in two acts -- The hindsight saga: three fragments from an autobiography. 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). |
| Provenance |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor.
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American wit and humor. |
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Short stories, American.
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Short stories, American. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories, American.
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| Subject |
Comedy.
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Comedy. |
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Satire.
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Satire. |
| Genre/Form |
Satire.
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| Subject |
American drama -- 20th century.
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American drama. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
American drama -- History and criticism.
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Perelman, S. J. (Sidney Joseph), 1904-1979 -- Correspondence.
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Perelman, S. J. (Sidney Joseph), 1904-1979. |
| Genre/Form |
Correspondence.
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| Subject |
Youth -- Drama.
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Youth. |
| Genre/Form |
Drama.
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Comedy plays.
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Comedy plays.
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Humor.
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Humor.
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Drama.
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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Humorous fiction.
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Humorous fiction.
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| Subject |
Youth. |
| Genre/Form |
Personal correspondence.
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Personal correspondence.
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| Added Author |
Gopnik, Adam, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781598536928 |
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1598536923 |
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