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Behold My Shorts - The Best of Robert Byrne
Behold My Shorts The Best of Robert Byrne Author:Robert Byrne Wide-ranging and full of surprises, Behold My Shorts displays a sense of humor that has been honed over a 40-year writing career. Here are ninety-three of Robert Byrnes most hilarious short works: newspaper columns, magazine pieces, and excerpts from his novels and collections of one-liners. — The comic sketches are divided into seven sections: T... more »he Early Years, The Writing Life, Wild Imaginings, Random Shots, People Ive Met and Cant Forget, Billiards, and God Stuff.
In A Chat With the Author, Byrne gradually suspects that his interviewer is his alter ego and that he has been foolishly talking to himself.
Fan favorites include an essay written from the point of view of a newborn baby, an account of how he might have killed a hard-boiled New York book editor, his memorable encounter with a Dutch billionaire in Monte Carlo, an address hed like to give to a graduating class, an obituary of a dyspeptic geezer who lost a cowardly battle against cancer, and what might have happened if Lazarus had been raised from the dead despite a do-not-resuscitate order.« less