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"Geng's writings are a good example of what was considered top-notch humor at the 'New Yorker' during the last days of editor William Shawn, and they will serve to attract or repel readers along exactly the same lines that the magazine itself once did."
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published date: 1999
Size: 5.75 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 0.8 pounds
Pages: 352
Publisher's Notes
In this collection of satirical pieces and short humorous fiction, Veronica Geng turns up hilarities large and small in government-speak, gender relations, academia, the mass media, love lives, restaurants airplanes, and baseball fans. "Often", Ian Frazier writes in his introduction, "her writing was the purest satire, in the sense that its preferred outcome would be for its object to fall down dead". Always attuned to the way things sound. Geng was a wicked parodist, a mimic of voices from Henry James to Chandler's private eyes, from LBJ to Pat Robertson. Love Trouble confirms Veronica Geng's place as one of our greatest humorists, who helped to carry the tradition of S.J. Perelman, James Thurber, and Robert Benchley to its illogical conclusion.
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