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Haircut and Other Stories | 
 enlarge | Author: Ring Lardner
Publisher: Touchstone
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 678284
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0020223447
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780020223443
ASIN: 0020223447
Publication Date: September 11, 1991
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Condition: Ex- Library copy, Great condition. It may have library stamps, stickers, and/or indestructable plastic coating.
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Product Description
Ring Lardner first burst upon the literary scene with his greatest popular success, "You Know Me Al". A sportswriter by trade, Lardner had a superb ear for regional peculiarities in speech and was loved for his sense of humor. Funny, sarcastic, sometimes bitter but always ironic, Lardner understood Americans-- their desires, their dreams, and their disappointments. Contained in "Haircut and Other Stories" are some of Lardner's best-known pieces: "Haircut", "Alibi Ike", "The Love Nest", "Zone of Quiet", and "Champion". Through these pages pass con men; an opinionated small-town barber; a nurse who chatters on and on, much to the chagrin of her charges; baseball players who have excuses for everything; and boxers who try to make it in the fight game. Published in "The Saturday Evening Post", "Collier's" and "Vanity Fair", Lardner enjoyed great success and was heralded as a singular talent by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, H. L. Mencken, and Virginia Woolf. "Haircut and Other Stories" is a celebration of people and of America, and is a must for anyone interested in classic American fiction.
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 He'll make you laugh but you may feel crumby about it October 18, 2004
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
There is a lot of really funny stuff . Consider the lines , "She looked at me like I was a side dish she hadn't ordered" Or another one in which a traveler is shown the Grand Canyon and says only , " What a hole" . This guy was tremendously funny and had a real feel for the slang and colloquial of his time. Maybe he didn't like people very much but he made it clear in an amusing way. " Still there are people who laugh at the guy who slips on the banana peel, and people who do not.
Lardner is thus much less a favorite of mine other great American comic writers , not simply Twain but someone like Damon Runyan. Runyan loves his characters . Lardner seems to really like no one.
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 This book could make a sad man laugh May 16, 1997
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
I had this book in hardback and it dissappeared when I lent it to a friend. A long time went buy until I found Amazon and was able to replace the book. To tell you the truth I enjoyed it even more the second time around. Alibi Ike could probably make someone laugh on his way to the electric chair. Also for young people, this book could show you the path we followed to get here.Frank Callender-Reviewer
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