Humor Me An Anthology of Funny Contemporary Writing Plus Some Great Old Stuff

Informationen zum Autor Ian Frazier is the author of many books, including Great Plains , On the Rez , Coyote v. Acme , Dating Your Mom , and, most recently, Travels in Siberia . A frequent contributor to The New Yorker , he has twice won the Thurber Prize for American humor. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Klappentext The perfect book for anyone with a sense of humor: more than fifty of the greatest pieces of comic writing of our time, selected by the incomparable Ian Frazier. Zusammenfassung A literary cavalcade of contemporary American funnymen - and funnywomen - of the page. It includes such masters of the form as Roy Blount Jr, Bruce Jay Friedman, Veronica Geng, Jack Handey, Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, and Calvin Trillin, as well as work by comic stars like Andy Borowitz, Larry Doyle, George Saunders, and David Sedaris.

Riassunto

A literary cavalcade of contemporary American funnymen - and funnywomen - of the page. It includes such masters of the form as Roy Blount Jr, Bruce Jay Friedman, Veronica Geng, Jack Handey, Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, and Calvin Trillin, as well as work by comic stars like Andy Borowitz, Larry Doyle, George Saunders, and David Sedaris.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Ian Frazier (Editore)
• Autori: Ian Frazier, Frazier Ian
• Editore: Ecco Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.05.2011
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9780061728952
• ISBN: 978-0-06-172895-2
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 13.5 x 20.3 x 1.9 cm
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