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The Swiss Family Perelman: A Rollicking International Road Trip with America's Greatest Humorist
by S. J. Perelman
Product Group: Book
Publisher: The Lyons Press (2000-08-01)
ISBN: 1585741817
EAN: 9781585741816
Dewy Decimal #: 814.54
Paperback: 224 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: GD08051816
Condition: New
Comments: Exactly as shown, Covers flat and shiny, Spine uncreased, Text clean with NO marks.
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Product Description
The Swiss Family Perelman is the hilarious and unforgettable account of the master humorist Perelman's trip around the world with his wife, son, daughter, and a cello. This collection of stories, originally published in Holiday in the late 1940s, is jam-packed with Perelman's signature wit and extraordinary prose style. (6 X 9, 224 pages, illustrations)
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Customer Reviews
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Buy this book!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-09-18
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Like most of the other stuff from the master, if you have a yen for humor with brains, please, please buy this book. A columnist for the New Yorker, screenplay writer for the Marx Brothers, humorist par excellence - do you need more reasons? How about the fact that he makes most other humorists look like college boys indulging in frat-house antics... Buy and enjoy! And then, buy the rest of his oeuvre!!
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My favorite travel book ever
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-01-30
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Hilarious account of the year legendary humorist S. J. Perelman took his family (wife and two mid-sized children) on a trip around the world. A follow-up to the equally delightful "Westward, Ha!", his similar trip with illustrator Al Hirschfeld. They travel the South Seas and Asia, the Middle East and all over Europe, accumulating ever larger piles of impedimentia.Every sentence sparkles with Perelman's unique and exquisite brand of "airy persiflage" (reassuring a threatening official of a tyranical oil company: "No muckraker I, I nervously assured him, but a vapid little tomtit writing elegiacs about temple bells and lepidoptera"). Not only funny, but a very interesting look at a the state of the world still readjusting itself from WWII. Heartily recommended.
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