Don't Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S. J. Perelman - Hardcover

Perelman, S. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670817597 ISBN 13: 9780670817597

Publisher: The Viking Press, 1987

Synopsis

A literary event--the hilarious, revealing, poignant correspondence of one of the greatest American humorists of the twentieth century. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The title sets the tone for this collection of 51 years of letters from the American humorist (19041979) to relatives, friends and loved ones. Perelman was not a tender man, even with his family, but his letters home are more natural and less wisecracking than those to people like T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx, whom he tried to impress. He also comes off rather better as a father than he did in Dorothy Herrmann's recent biography. There are many nuggets of Perelman's famously acid wit: Malcolm Muggeridge is "a chatterbox all smile and prussic acid, bristling with insincerity." Mike Todd is "a combination of Quasimodo and P. T. Barnum." Lillian Hellman "has begun to compare herself with George Sand." Presidential candidates Ford and Carter "flail away at each other with panty-hose filled with Nembutal." Crowther, a fledgling writer whose friendship warmed Perelman's last year, has competently assembled and introduced this collection. Photos not seen by PW. First serial to Vanity Fair. (July 20
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About this edition

• Publisher: The Viking Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0670817597
• ISBN 13: 9780670817597
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372
• Editor: Crowther Prudence