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The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze
The MiddleAged Man on the Flying Trapeze
Author: James Thurber
A collection of short pieces, with drawings by the author. "A Joyce in false-face, Mr. Thurber strews hilarious pages with characters who take their subconsciouses out on benders. However, although he shares with Clarence Day many topics and one style of drawing, it is not to Mr. Thurber's books that you would go, for example, in search of a Fat...  more »
ISBN: 454108
Publication Date: 1976
Pages: 227
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Publisher: Harper & Row Perennial Library
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Gentle humor writing from yesteryear, first published in the New Yorker. It is not as silly and uproarious as Wodehouse, but there are some good laughs. The pieces are short, good bedside reading or for waiting rooms.


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