Without a Stitch in Time
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Without a Stitch in Time

A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 14 Nov |Learn more

Without a Stitch in Time

A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces

About this book

"The range of his performance is hard to equal. . . . De Vries produces something that is more than brilliant entertainment." — New York Times
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, offers pun-filled autobiographical vignettes that reveal the source of De Vries's nervous wit: the cognitive dissonance between his Calvinist upbringing in 1920s Chicago and the all-too-perfect postwar world. Noted as much for his verbal fluidity and wordplay as for his ability to see humor through pain, De Vries will delight both new readers and old in this uproarious modern masterpiece.
 
"The beauty of a pun is in the eye of the beholder. . . . For between the punch lines, De Vries shows himself as a lapsed Calvinist who sees the world as a reproach to that incurable hypocrite, man. Irony is De Vries's weapon, and this collection of fugitive pieces extends his gallery of not always humane inconsistencies." — Time
"Quick with quips so droll and witty, so penetrating and precise that you almost don't feel them piercing your pretensions." -- Sacramento Bee
"The funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic." —Kingsley Amis
"A peerless American maestro of wit." — The Millions

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Praise for De Vries, Without a Stitch in Time
  5. Biographical Note
  6. Books by Peter De Vries
  7. Contents
  8. A Hard Day at the Office
  9. Slice of Life
  10. Flesh and the Devil
  11. Mud in Your Eye
  12. Afternoon of a Faun
  13. Interior with Figures
  14. Good Boy
  15. Tulip
  16. Every Leave That Falls
  17. Compulsion
  18. Scene
  19. A Crying Need
  20. In Defense of Self-pity; or, Prelude to LöwenbrÀu
  21. The High Ground; or, Look, Ma, I’m Explicating
  22. The Independent Voter at Twilight
  23. The Conversational Ball
  24. Adventures of a People Buff
  25. Heart
  26. Requiem for a Noun; or, Intruder in the Dusk
  27. The House of Mirth
  28. Split-level
  29. Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold
  30. From There to Infinity
  31. Overture
  32. Reuben, Reuben
  33. Touch and Go
  34. Fall Guy
  35. You and Who Else?
  36. Nobody’s Fool
  37. Block
  38. Double or Nothing
  39. Journey to the Center of the Room
  40. Different Cultural Levels Eat Here
  41. The Man Who Read Waugh
  42. The Art of Self-dramatization; or, Forward from Schrecklichkeit
  43. The Children’s Hour; or, Hopscotch and Soda
  44. The Irony of It All
  45. Laughter in the Basement
  46. Part of the Family Picture
  47. You Know Me Alice
  48. A Walk in the Country; or, How to Keep Fit to Be Tied
  49. The Last of the Bluenoses
  50. Scones and Stones
  51. Forever Panting
  52. James Thurber: The Comic Prufrock
  53. Exploring Inner Space