1997, ISBN: 0679452338

[EAN: 9780679452331], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 4.0], [PU: New York : Random House], Jacket, XXIV, 294 S. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - People who read magazines … More...

[EAN: 9780679452331], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 4.0], [PU: New York : Random House], Jacket, XXIV, 294 S. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - People who read magazines backward will agree with John Berendt and David Halberstam. Buckley's frequent New Yorker contributions to the back-page "Shouts and Murmurs" column have been a regular source of hilarity: The Pope's appearance on Oprah to promote his book; letters of recommendation for O. f. Simpson's New York condo application; a review of Peter Benchley's new book, Gills, about a vengeful Dolly Varden trout; the starship Enterprise's most daring and difficult assignment- programming its VCR; and several dozen other delightful New Yorker parodies, satires, and pastiches are all collected here. Buckley also writes for other magazines. Over the years he has written memorable pieces for such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, Architectural Digest, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler, Esquire, and many others. These pieces are also included-at no extra charge. He has occasionally been the source of controversy, as when he perpetrated a highly efficient and successful hoax claiming that the Kremlin was about to auction off the embalmed remains of Lenin in order to raise hard currency. A review he wrote of one of Tom Clancy's novels so infuriated the novelist that he launched fax cruise missiles at Buckley-providing Buckley with ammunition for his counter-strike. When not annoying the Russian Interior Ministry or megaselling thriller writers, Buckley embarks on unusual adventures of his own: steaming up the Amazon in the company of billionaires and deposed European royalty, spelunking in Mayan caves, landing on the deck of the U.S.S. Nimitz, and hurtling about the wild blue yonder with the Thunderbirds (see "How I Went Nine Gs in an F-16 and Only Threw Up Five Times"). These, too, are included- but you must act now. ISBN 9780679452331 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Fadengehefteter Originalpappband mit Schutzumschlag., Books<

1997, ISBN: 0679452338

[EAN: 9780679452331], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: New York : Random House], Jacket, XXIV, 294 S. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - People who read magazines backward wi… More...

[EAN: 9780679452331], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: New York : Random House], Jacket, XXIV, 294 S. Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - People who read magazines backward will agree with John Berendt and David Halberstam. Buckley's frequent New Yorker contributions to the back-page "Shouts and Murmurs" column have been a regular source of hilarity: The Pope's appearance on Oprah to promote his book; letters of recommendation for O. f. Simpson's New York condo application; a review of Peter Benchley's new book, Gills, about a vengeful Dolly Varden trout; the starship Enterprise's most daring and difficult assignment- programming its VCR; and several dozen other delightful New Yorker parodies, satires, and pastiches are all collected here. Buckley also writes for other magazines. Over the years he has written memorable pieces for such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, Architectural Digest, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler, Esquire, and many others. These pieces are also included-at no extra charge. He has occasionally been the source of controversy, as when he perpetrated a highly efficient and successful hoax claiming that the Kremlin was about to auction off the embalmed remains of Lenin in order to raise hard currency. A review he wrote of one of Tom Clancy's novels so infuriated the novelist that he launched fax cruise missiles at Buckley-providing Buckley with ammunition for his counter-strike. When not annoying the Russian Interior Ministry or megaselling thriller writers, Buckley embarks on unusual adventures of his own: steaming up the Amazon in the company of billionaires and deposed European royalty, spelunking in Mayan caves, landing on the deck of the U.S.S. Nimitz, and hurtling about the wild blue yonder with the Thunderbirds (see "How I Went Nine Gs in an F-16 and Only Threw Up Five Times"). These, too, are included- but you must act now. ISBN 9780679452331 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Fadengehefteter Originalpappband mit Schutzumschlag., Books<

1997, ISBN: 9780679452331

Random House, 1997. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. His famous father conducted a legendary literary feud with Gore Vidal, and while Christopher Buckley's dust-up via fax machine with novelist Tom … More...

Random House, 1997. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 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., Random House, 1997, 3<

1997, ISBN: 0679452338

Hardcover, First edition

[EAN: 9780679452331], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.], Jacket, [publisher: Random House, New York] First Edition FIRST PRINTING of the… More...

[EAN: 9780679452331], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.], Jacket, [publisher: Random House, New York] First Edition FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. SIGNED ny author on half title page. Very good (remainder dot on top edge, rear top corner of board bumped and first few pages rippled) in a very good dustjacket ( light rippling). Will be quite presentable in a Brodart sleeve. A great collection of the author's most humorous pieces lampooning society, culture, politics, international relations, much more. Hardcover with dust jacket, indexed, 294pp., Books<

1997, ISBN: 0679452338

Hardcover, First edition

[EAN: 9780679452331], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 23.22], [PU: Random House], Jacket, Signed Copy First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Signed by author on bookplate laid in. Slightl… More...

[EAN: 9780679452331], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 23.22], [PU: Random House], Jacket, Signed Copy First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Signed by author on bookplate laid in. Slightly dampstained. In protective mylar cover. (humor, essay, short story), Books<