Fat Tuesday Tails
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Patrick Campbell — Ireland's most beloved humorist and one of television's most charmingly hesitant personalities — brings his signature wit and warmth to Fat Tuesday Tails, a delightful collection of comic essays and sketches that showcases the full breadth of his absurdist genius. With his trademark gift for transforming the mundane into the magnificently ridiculous, Campbell chronicles the everyday misadventures and social catastrophes that defined his singular comic vision, drawing readers into a world where the simplest of situations unravels with spectacular, side-splitting consequences. Campbell's prose is deceptively effortless — a masterclass in comic timing translated to the written page — each piece building with an irresistible momentum that mirrors the stuttering, self-deprecating charm that made him a household name. Deeply rooted in a tradition of Anglo-Irish humour that counts Behan and Wodehouse among its spiritual kin, Fat Tuesday Tails stands as a testament to Campbell's rare ability to find the absurd lurking just beneath the surface of polite society. For those yet to encounter his work, this volume promises a first encounter that will be impossible to forget.
Author: Patrick Campbell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1972, Blond & Briggs
Genre: Humour
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Patrick Campbell — Ireland's most beloved humorist and one of television's most charmingly hesitant personalities — brings his signature wit and warmth to Fat Tuesday Tails, a delightful collection of comic essays and sketches that showcases the full breadth of his absurdist genius. With his trademark gift for transforming the mundane into the magnificently ridiculous, Campbell chronicles the everyday misadventures and social catastrophes that defined his singular comic vision, drawing readers into a world where the simplest of situations unravels with spectacular, side-splitting consequences. Campbell's prose is deceptively effortless — a masterclass in comic timing translated to the written page — each piece building with an irresistible momentum that mirrors the stuttering, self-deprecating charm that made him a household name. Deeply rooted in a tradition of Anglo-Irish humour that counts Behan and Wodehouse among its spiritual kin, Fat Tuesday Tails stands as a testament to Campbell's rare ability to find the absurd lurking just beneath the surface of polite society. For those yet to encounter his work, this volume promises a first encounter that will be impossible to forget.