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  • THE CAT'S PAJAMAS AND WITCH'S MILK
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    THE CAT'S PAJAMAS AND WITCH'S MILK
    PETER DE VRIES
    Twin tales of middle-class hilarity and despair from the writer who was dubbed "America's preeminent comic novelist" by the New York Times When college professor Hank Tattersall sees his former flame, Lucy Stiles, at a campus concert, it sets off a chain reaction that results in one of the funniest and most unforgettable exit scenes in American literature—involving a locked doo...

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  • COMFORT ME WITH APPLES
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    COMFORT ME WITH APPLES
    PETER DE VRIES
    A laugh-out-loud novel about teenage pretensions and adult delusions from an author whom the New York Times has called "a Balzac of the station wagon set" Chick Swallow and his best friend, Nickie Sherman, are teenage boulevardiers of Decency, Connecticut, devotees of Oscar Wilde who spend their evenings crafting perverse aphorisms in an ice-cream parlor. "There is only one thi...

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  • THE TENTS OF WICKEDNESS
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    THE TENTS OF WICKEDNESS
    PETER DE VRIES
    A masterwork of literary parody about a suburban Samaritan and the poet he seeks to inspire After the wild adventures of Comfort Me with Apples, Chick Swallow has found domestic peace in Decency, Connecticut, accepting his fate as a middle-class husband and father and the author of an advice column in the local newspaper. His hard-won contentment is about to disappear like warm...

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  • LET ME COUNT THE WAYS
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    LET ME COUNT THE WAYS
    PETER DE VRIES
    The sins of the father are hilariously visited on the son in this witty and profound novel about the meaning of it all Stanley Waltz is a Polish American piano mover and pugnacious atheist married to a born-again believer. His heroes are H. L. Mencken and Clarence Darrow, and if he confuses "illusion" with "allusion" and thinks a certain style of egg is "bedeviled," that does n...

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  • THE MACKEREL PLAZA
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    THE MACKEREL PLAZA
    PETER DE VRIES
    An irresistible comedy about faith, desire, and middle-class morality from the man described by Kingsley Amis as "the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic" Pity the poor reverend Andrew Mackerel of the People's Liberal Church of Avalon, Connecticut. His is the first split-level church in America, a bastion of modern thought and sophisticated virtue...

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  • THE VALE OF LAUGHTER
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    THE VALE OF LAUGHTER
    PETER DE VRIES
    A brilliant, fiercely funny novel that ponders the eternal question: is it better to laugh or cry? Joe Sandwich is a clown. Not literally, but what else do you call an eleven-year-old who goes to church to confess his good deeds: "I did my homework without being told"? A stockbroker who gets seasick watching the market tape and claims the gross national product is "deodorants"?...

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  • REUBEN, REUBEN
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    REUBEN, REUBEN
    PETER DE VRIES
    Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. A manic epic, Reuben, Reuben is really three books in one, tied together by a 1950s suburban Connecticut setting and hyper-li...

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  • THE TUNNEL OF LOVE
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    THE TUNNEL OF LOVE
    PETER DE VRIES
    Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. De Vries’s classic situation comedy The Tunnel of Love follows the interactions of a socially insecure, pun-loving family man...

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  • WITHOUT A STITCH IN TIME
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    WITHOUT A STITCH IN TIME
    PETER DE VRIES
    Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia—the school of John Updike and Cheever—this work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. Without a Stitch in Time, a selection of forty-six articles and stories written for the New Yorker between 1943 and 1973, off...

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  • SLOUCHING TOWARDS KALAMAZOO
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    SLOUCHING TOWARDS KALAMAZOO
    PETER DE VRIES
    It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but not enough time studying the War of 1812 or obtuse triangles. A tutor is hired, and this "modern Hester Prynne" offers Anthony lessons that ultimately free h...

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  • THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB
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    THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB
    PETER DE VRIES
    One of John Green's "favorite books ever," a powerful, moving novel of family, parenthood, and loss The most poignant of all Peter De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the 1950s through the loss of a brother, his faith, his wife, a...

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