The Rising Gorge: America's Master Humorist Takes on Everything from Monomania to Ernest Hemingway

The Rising Gorge: America's Master Humorist Takes on Everything from Monomania to Ernest Hemingway

Editorial Reviews
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Perelman handles the American language the way a virtuoso piccolo player plays "The Stars and Stripes Forever."

The Saturday Review
Three of the pieces in this collection are so good that one may feel compelled to read them aloud to any audience you can muster.

The Rising Gorge: America's Master Humorist Takes on Everything from Monomania to Ernest Hemingway

The Rising Gorge: America's Master Humorist Takes on Everything from Monomania to Ernest Hemingway,S. J. Perelman,The Lyons Press,1585741728,Form - Essays,General,Humor,Travel / Essays & Travelogues

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