Thurber Country: A New Collection Of Pieces About Males And Females Mainly Of Our Own Species
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: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In Thurber Country, one of America's most beloved comic writers turns his razor-sharp wit upon the eternal battlefield of the sexes, presenting a sparkling collection of sketches, stories, and observations that chronicle the absurdities of modern domestic life with gleeful precision. James Thurber populates this world with hapless husbands, formidable wives, anxious neurotics, and bewildered dreamers — all rendered with the warmth and mischievous intelligence that made him a cornerstone of mid-twentieth-century American humour. Thurber's prose style is deceptively light, yet each piece carries the weight of genuine social observation, illustrating with devastating accuracy the small defeats and quiet rebellions that define human coexistence. His legacy, cemented through decades of contributions to *The New Yorker*, is one of a writer who understood that comedy is the sharpest lens through which to examine human nature — and Thurber Country stands as one of the finest maps of that strange, hilarious, and deeply familiar territory.
Author: James Thurber
Format: Hardback
Published: 1953, Hamish Hamilton
Genre: Humour
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In Thurber Country, one of America's most beloved comic writers turns his razor-sharp wit upon the eternal battlefield of the sexes, presenting a sparkling collection of sketches, stories, and observations that chronicle the absurdities of modern domestic life with gleeful precision. James Thurber populates this world with hapless husbands, formidable wives, anxious neurotics, and bewildered dreamers — all rendered with the warmth and mischievous intelligence that made him a cornerstone of mid-twentieth-century American humour. Thurber's prose style is deceptively light, yet each piece carries the weight of genuine social observation, illustrating with devastating accuracy the small defeats and quiet rebellions that define human coexistence. His legacy, cemented through decades of contributions to *The New Yorker*, is one of a writer who understood that comedy is the sharpest lens through which to examine human nature — and Thurber Country stands as one of the finest maps of that strange, hilarious, and deeply familiar territory.