Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book For Rude People - Hardcover

P.J. O'Rourke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087113313X ISBN 13: 9780871133137

Publisher: A Morgan Entrekin Book: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989

Synopsis

This book is an etiquette book for rude people. It is made of rules for a world without rules. You will find it an irreverent and hilarious guide to anti-etiquette for the 1990's and beyond that offers pointed advice on a range of topics from sex, and entertaining to reading and death.

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Review:

As one of the few folks who made it out of the National Lampoon alive and writing, P. J. O'Rourke is--a comment that might please him more than most humorists--an elder statesman of American humor. While this says much about the thinness of the field, you gotta give him his props.

Modern Manners is good, early O'Rourke, a book that you can read and enjoy without being to the right of Francisco Franco. Who can resist lines such as "A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat." Or, "Don't wear a tweed jacket to work unless you expect to flush a covey of quail from behind the Xerox machine." Manners are a moving target, and some sections are in need of revision (cocaine really was a big deal, wasn't it?), but don't let that dissuade you. By and large, Modern Manners comes through admirably.

About this edition

• Publisher: A Morgan Entrekin Book: The Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 087113313X
• ISBN 13: 9780871133137
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280