DISQUIET PLEASE! MORE HUMOR WRITING FROM THE NEW YORKER 1ST ED/1ST PRINTING

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Condition
Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
Features
1ST PRINTING
Subject
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE
Publication Name
DISQUIET PLEASE! MORE HUMOR WRITING FROM THE NEW YORKER
Type
BOOK
ISBN
9781400068012
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400068010
ISBN-13
9781400068012
eBay Product ID (ePID)
69656067

Product Key Features

Book Title
Disquiet, Please! : more Humor Writing from the New Yorker
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Form / Essays
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Humor
Author
New Yorker
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
31 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
817.508
Synopsis
The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years, it's also been a hoot. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it "a comic weekly," and while it has grown into much more,it has also remained true to its original mission. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found in a hilarious new collection, one as satirical and witty, misanthropic and menacing, as the first, Fierce Pajamas. From the 1920s onwardbut with a special focus on the latest generationhere are the humorists who set the pace and stirred the pot, pulled the leg and pinched the behind of America. S. J. Perelman unearths the furious letters of a foreign correspondent in India to the laundry he insists on using in Paris ("Who charges six francs to wash a cummerbund?!"). Woody Allen recalls the "Whore of Mensa," who excites her customers by reading Proust (or, if you want, two girls will explain Noam Chomsky). Steve Martin's pill bottle warns us of side effects ranging from hair that smells of burning tires to teeth receiving radio broadcasts. Andy Borowitz provides his version of theater-lobby notices ("In Act III, there is full frontal nudity, but not involving the actor you would like to see naked"). David Owen's rules for dating his ex-wife start out magnanimous and swiftly disintegrate into sarcasm, self-loathing, and rage, and Noah Baumbach unfolds a history of his last relationship in the form of Zagat reviews. Meanwhile, off in a remote "willage" in Normandy, David Sedaris is drowning a mouse ("This was for the best, whether the mouse realized it or not"). Plus asides, fancies, rebukes, and musings from Patty Marx, Calvin Trillin, Bruce McCall, Garrison Keillor, Veronica Geng, Ian Frazier, Roy Blount, Jr., and many others. If laughter is the best medicine, Disquiet, Please is truly a wonder drug.
LC Classification Number
PN6165.D58 2009

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