Bøger af S J Perelman

"From October 1948 to October 1953, The New Yorker published humorist S.J. Perelman's "Cloudland Revisited" series: twenty-two reviews of once-popular books and silent films whose expiration dates had passed. All but forgotten even at the time, they were nonetheless part of Perelman's youth and made an indelible mark on him. ln the comic genius's biting satire they live once again: Gertrude Atherton's sensationalist fantasy Black Oxen; Sax Rohmer's supervillain blockbuster The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu; the "underwater" silent film adaptation of Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea; Edgar Rice Burrough's 1914 novel Tarzan of the Apes; and George Barr McCutcheon's 1901 historical fantasy novel Graustark-the Game of Thrones of its era-which launched numerous sequels and film adaptations. Here for the first time all twenty-two of Perelman's reappraisals are collected. With self-deprecating humor and frequent embarrassment, Perelman reflects on how rereading and rewatching brings us in contact with how we, like an old book or film, have both changed and remained the same. This paperback includes a tribute to Perelman's art by another New Yorker favorite, Adam Gopnik"--Provided by publisher

"A collections of the very best writings of America's funniest and zaniest humorist, made by the comic genius himself, is reissued in a handsome paperback. Here, S. J. Perelman's gift for wordplay, witticism, spoofery, and sheer nonsense are on full display. In a playful, loving tribute to the funny man, novelist Joshua Cohen-also an erudite wordsmith and punster-introduces Perelman's sui generis comic pieces to a new generation of readers, certain to fall in love with the writer whom The New York Times once noted for his ability "to transform the common clichâe or figure of speech into an exploding cigar." Included here are such beloved classics as the Joycean virtuoso performance "Scenario"; "A Farewell to Omsk," an homage to Dostoevsky; and Perelman's side-splitting send-up of the hardboiled detective fiction of Raymond Chandler, "Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer."-- Provided by publisher.