“De Vries was an editor at Poetry magazine, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and the author of some two dozen of the wittiest novels you’ll ever read, including the masterworks The Blood of the Lamb and Slouching Toward Kalamazoo, as well as The Tunnel of Love and Reuben, Reuben, just resurrected in handsome paperback by the University of Chicago Press A goulash of one-liners does not a 4/5(13). · Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. A manic epic, Reuben, Reuben is really three books in one, tied together by a s suburban Connecticut setting and hyper-literate Brand: University of Chicago Press. · “Reuben, Reuben,” by Peter De Vries (University of Chicago Press) Ma. A decade ago, the off-kilter universe created by Peter De Vries was almost forgotten — his work out of.
Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Reuben, Reuben: A Novel by Peter Devries (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Reuben, Reuben is a comedy-drama film directed by Robert Ellis Miller and starring Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis (in her film debut), Roberts Blossom, Cynthia Harris, and Joel Fabiani. About a leching, alcoholic Scottish poet making the New England campus circuit, Reuben, Reuben is exceptionally literate, with lines that carom with wit from the superb adaptation by Julius J.
Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. A manic epic, Reuben, Reuben is really three books in one, tied together by a s suburban Connecticut setting and hyper-literate cast of characters. “De Vries was an editor at Poetry magazine, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and the author of some two dozen of the wittiest novels you’ll ever read, including the masterworks The Blood of the Lamb and Slouching Toward Kalamazoo, as well as The Tunnel of Love and Reuben, Reuben, just resurrected in handsome paperback by the University of Chicago Press A goulash of one-liners does not a novel make, and part of De Vries’s vitalizing talent lies in his storytelling efficiency. His masterpiece, Reuben, Reuben is nothing less than a satiric time capsule of the so-called Mad Men generation, a look at what your square older siblings were up to when you hit the road like Jack Kerouac and wound up in the Haight. Literature—in the form of the University of Chicago Press—is making amends for its lapses by re-issuing the best of De Vries’ works, five comic tomes long out of print.”.
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