The Ill-Tempered Clavichord
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
"The Ill-Tempered Clavichord" is a collection of twenty-three humorous essays by S. J. Perelman, drawn almost entirely from his celebrated contributions to "The New Yorker," in which he trains his surrealist, baroque wit on the absurdities of modern American life, skewering consumer culture, Hollywood pretension, and the foibles of the English language itself through wildly inventive parody, puns, and playlets constructed around newspaper clippings, all delivered in a self-consciously ornate style that places him alongside Joyce and Beerbohm as one of the twentieth century's most technically audacious comic writers.
Author: S. J. Perelman
Format: Hardback
Published: 1953, Max Reinhardt
Genre: Essays
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
"The Ill-Tempered Clavichord" is a collection of twenty-three humorous essays by S. J. Perelman, drawn almost entirely from his celebrated contributions to "The New Yorker," in which he trains his surrealist, baroque wit on the absurdities of modern American life, skewering consumer culture, Hollywood pretension, and the foibles of the English language itself through wildly inventive parody, puns, and playlets constructed around newspaper clippings, all delivered in a self-consciously ornate style that places him alongside Joyce and Beerbohm as one of the twentieth century's most technically audacious comic writers.