Wry Martinis
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His famous father conducted a legendary literary feud with Gore Vidal, and while Christopher Buckley's dust-up via fax machine with novelist Tom Clanc y (who was outraged by Buckley's trashing of ...
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His famous father conducted a legendary literary feud with Gore Vidal, and while Christopher Buckley's dust-up via fax machine with novelist Tom Clanc y (who was outraged by Buckley's trashing of one of his novels in the New Y ork Times Book Review doesn't reach that intellectual level, it does make f or very funny reading and illustrates Buckley's gift for puncturing pomposi ty wherever he finds it. To his credit, most of the essays in this collecti on are quite witty, and he doesn't sink to mean- spirited ideological blath er. Included are pieces published in the New Yorker, Esquire, the Wall Stre et Journal, and other publications. Apart from the humorous essays, Buckley 's ruminations on why he didn't serve in Vietnam provide thought-provoking commentary on his generation's defining event.
Product Info
ISBN: 0679452338
ISBN-13: 9780679452331
Publisher: Random House
Year: 1997
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
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