{"product_id":"crazy-like-a-fox-the-classic-comedy-collection-9781598537789","title":"Crazy Like a Fox: The Classic Comedy Collection","description":"\u003cb\u003eA beloved classic returns: S. J. Perelman's own selection of the very best of his hilarious stories and sketches \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning author Joshua Cohen (\u003ci\u003eThe Netanyahus\u003c\/i\u003e) reintroduces America's zaniest humorist to a new generation of readers \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen asked about himself the writer Sidney Joseph Perelman once quipped, \"before they made him, they broke the mold.\" Nowhere is S. J. Perelman's one-of-a-kind, madcap sensibility--his gift for wordplay, witticism, spoofery, and sheer nonsense--on better display than in his classic collection \u003ci\u003eCrazy Like a Fox\u003c\/i\u003e, here restored to print for the first time in decades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a playful, loving tribute to the funny man, novelist Joshua Cohen--also an erudite wordsmith and punster--introduces Perelman's sui generis comic pieces to a new generation of readers, certain to fall in love with the writer whom \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e once noted for his ability \"to transform the common cliché or figure of speech into an exploding cigar.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluded here are such beloved classics as: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe Joycean virtuoso performance \"Scenario\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"A Farewell to Omsk,\" Perelman's hilarious homage to Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eand \"Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer,\" his side-splitting send-up of the hardboiled detective fiction of Raymond Chandler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is Perelman's own selection of the very best of his inimitable humor, restored to print for the first time in decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598537789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"S. J. Perelman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43644034646197,"sku":"9781598537789","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a5a57270-484f-428f-a1e1-553be01c673e.jpg?v=1708446180","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/crazy-like-a-fox-the-classic-comedy-collection-9781598537789","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}