现货The Years with Ross[9780060959715]

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作者Thurber, James

出版社Harper Perennial

ISBN9780060959715

出版时间2020-12

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纸张其他

页数336页

正文语种英语

上书时间2023-08-07

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商品描述: From iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazines unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold RossExtremely entertaining. . . . life at The New Yorker emerges as a lovely sort of pageant of lunacy, of practical jokes, of feuds and foibles. It is an affectionate picture of scamps playing their games around a man who, for all his brusqueness, loved them, took care of them, pampered and scolded them like an irascible mother hen. New York TimesWith a foreword by Adam Gopnik and illustrations by James ThurberAt the helm of Americas most influential literary magazine from 1925 to 1951, Harold Ross introduced the country to a host of exciting talent, including Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Ogden Nash, Peter Arno, Charles Addams, and Dorothy Parker. But no one could have written about this irascible, eccentric genius more affectionately or more critically than James Thurber, whose portrait of Ross captures not only a complex literary giant but a historic friendship and a glorious era as well. If you get Ross down on paper," warned Wolcott Gibbs to Thurber," nobody will ever believe it." But readers of this unforgettable memoir will find that they do.Offering a peek into the lives of two American literary giants and the New York literary scene at its heyday, The Years with Ross is a true classic, and a testament to the enduring influence of their genius. ..."

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