Dry Martinis

"Fifty years ago, the three funniest writers in the English language were named Shaw, Mencken and Muggeridge. Today, they''re named Thompson, O''Rourke and Christopher Buckley.Read this book and you''ll die laughing. But as Wrong-Way Kennedy said, ''What a way to go.''" -- Tom Wolfe "Funny and devastating." -- Entertainment Weekly "Clever, erudite, sophisticated, funny and flip. Buckley shows that his antennae are ever alert to the absurdities in our world." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer "Buckley''s comic muse -- and as Wry Martinis attests, he is one of the rarest specimens in his generation of that endangered species, the authentically inventive comic writer -- adorns the Benchley-Thurber line of social observation. He is probably the most versatile practitioner of that tradition today.... Wry Martinis has an astonishing range, all the way from the history of the miniskirt to the language of the New American Bible." -- Boston Globe

About the author

Christopher Buckley, whose novel themovie is based on, is the editor of ForbesFYI magazine and the author of elevenbooks, many of them national bestsellers,including Thank You for Smoking. He isthe winner of the distinguished ThurberPrize for American humor.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Buckley
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.1998
• EAN: 9780060977429
• ISBN: 978-0-06-097742-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 205 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Political, FICTION: Satire, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Speeches, FICTION: Humorous / Dark Humor