Frank Sullivan at His Best (Dover Humor) - Softcover

Sullivan, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486294358 ISBN 13: 9780486294353

Publisher: Dover Publications, 1996

Synopsis

In the 1930s and 40s, humorist Frank Sullivan took dead aim at the American scene in hilarious pieces written for The New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post, Town and Country, and other publications. Dispensing humorous commentary and criticisms that could be gentle or cutting, sad or sympathetic, he entertained without ever being mean-spirited or condescending.
This delightful volume includes 42 of his best pieces. Selected from three earlier collections — A Pearl in Every Oyster, The Night the Old Nostalgia Burned Down, and A Rock in Every Snowball — they include an amusingly nostalgic account of "The Passing of the Old Front Porch," a humorous recollection of campus life in "An Old Grad Remembers," and a gentle put-down of the Lone Star State in "An Innocent in Texas." Readers will also enjoy such droll fare as "A Bachelor Looks at Breakfast," "How to Change a Typewriter Ribbon," and a selection of amusing commentaries by Mr. Arbuthnot, the cliché expert, on war, baseball, tabloids, and other topics.
Wonderfully good-natured, in the spirit of Robert Benchley, this vintage humor will tickle modern funny bones and keep readers chuckling at Sullivan's tongue-in-cheek comments on wealth of subjects from the not-so-distant past.

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About the Author

Sullivan is a designer and photographer whose avocation is transportation subjects.

Review

The creator of hilarious pieces for a number of national publications in the 1930s and '40s, humorist Frank Sullivan took dead aim at the American scene. His amusing patter (reminiscent of the dialogue in an early Marx Brothers movie) revealed a style of tongue-in-cheek humor that could be gentle or cutting, sad or sympathetic, but never mean-spirited or condescending. Frank Sullivan At His Best features forty-seven of his best pieces including "A Bachelor Looks at Breakfast", "The Passing of the Old Front Porch", "An Innocent in Texas", and "How to Change a Typewriter Ribbon". Wonderfully good natured these entertaining selections have contemporary appeal with droll comments on a host of subjects from out of the not-so-distant past. Frank Sullivan At His Best will introduce a whole new generation to a genuine wit of the stature of Robert Benchley or Will Rogers. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0486294358
• ISBN 13: 9780486294353
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192