“De Vries was an editor at Poetry magazine, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and the author of some two dozen of the wittiest novels you’ll ever read, including the masterworks The Blood of the Lamb and Slouching Toward Kalamazoo, as well as The Tunnel of Love and Reuben, Reuben, just resurrected in handsome paperback by the University of Chicago Press Only those with a consummate lack of /5(43). Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, by Peter De Vries. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. T o Borrow A trope from his colleague T hom as Pynchon, there is . “De Vries was an editor at Poetry magazine, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and the author of some two dozen of the wittiest novels you’ll ever read, including the masterworks The Blood of the Lamb and Slouching Toward Kalamazoo, as well as The Tunnel of Love and Reuben, Reuben, just resurrected in handsome paperback by the University of Chicago Press Only those with a consummate lack of .
By Michiko Kakutani SLOUCHING TOWARDS KALAMAZOO. By Peter De Vries. pages. Little, Brown Company. $ ''I SEEM to bear my share of responsibility, for the chuckles and chortles, all of. Editions for Slouching Towards Kalamazoo: (Paperback published in ), (Kindle Edition published in ), (Paperback published i. And the novel's much weaker second half takes place a couple of years later: Tony visits Miss D. in Kalamazoo, where she's raising baby Ahab and making a mint from her scarlet-letter T-shirt business; he spends a lot of time with Miss D.'s wealthy, reminiscing grandfather; and--after some noble attempts at ""cooling the hots""-Tony finds Sex.
And the novel's much weaker second half takes place a couple of years later: Tony visits Miss D. in Kalamazoo, where she's raising baby Ahab and making a mint from her scarlet-letter T-shirt business; he spends a lot of time with Miss D.'s wealthy, reminiscing grandfather; and--after some noble attempts at ""cooling the hots""-Tony finds Sex. Find Slouching Towards Kalamazoo by De Vries, Peter at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. Edited January 7, De Vries may be labled a "comic author," but Slouching Towards Kalamazoo is no light reading. Told from the perspective of a genius teenager who shows off his intellectual powers to the reader in his very narration, the book is a challenge worthy of the most skilled readers.
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