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James Thurber
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  • Paperback: 87 pages
  • Publisher: HarperPerennial; Reprint edition (31 Mar 1990)
  • ISBN-10: 0060916427
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060916428
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 406,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"The late James Thurber from Columbus, Ohio, in the course of his work as an ironic and comic genius, was as rare a thing as can be found in the United States--a stark American without a trace of corn, and a first-class sensibility without a tinge of the precious. He died within twelve months of Hemingway and Faulkner, and Thurber himself is already a figure, at once looming and modest, in the national pantheon."-- "Newsweek" "Thurber's "My Life and Hard Times" is just about the best thing I've ever read." -- Ogden Nash"Possibly the shortest and most elegant autobiography ever written." -- From the Afterword by Russell Baker "As a humorist Thurber is contemporary and timeless."--" The Spectator" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Illustrated with the author's own bizarre drawings, these hilarious pieces focus on the life of Thurber's family during his boyhood in Columbus, Ohio. They add up to one of the great, if eccentric, portraits of life in middle America in the early years of the century. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Very funny book 6 Aug 2008
Format:Hardcover
Short, but serious contender for the funniest book I've ever read. I imagine it will be one I will return to again and again. Definately recommend it.
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This book, with whom I share a long and one-sided love-affair, is a perfect gem. I have read it during my life again and again, and I never have escaped without laughing--hard--out loud at all the Thurber family goings-on. Thurber has the rare gift of constructing a symphony of a story with the sparest but most meaningful instruments. His other books, The Thurber Carnival and the Thurber Album are also worth reading.
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I read this book and others by James Thurberas a teenager and never forgot how much they made me laugh! Priceless.
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