Item
Life Sentences for Everybody
- Title
- en_US Life Sentences for Everybody
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Jerre Mangione
- Creator
- en_US Mangione, Jerre See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Glueckselig, Leo
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:53:30Z
- en_US 1992-05
- en_US 1965
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:53:30Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1965
- Abstract
- en_US A delightful set of thirty-six instant novels. Sentences works in three senses: (1) each story is one sentence long, though there is some cheating through colons and semi-colons; (2) what is delivered here is a set of apothegms or sententiae about life, specifically about character types (each piece is named after a character or family); (3) we are offered here judgments or condemnations, as though these characters were in a court. The stories deserve to be called fables by any good definition, but they are not exactly Aesopic in type. A bit on the racy, sexist side. Mangione is a reduced George Ade. The caricature drawings are lively. The name-invention game here is a matter of hit and miss, I would say. Among the best stories: Johanna Ramp Fatutto (14), Susan Egg (24), Timothy Jezebel (28), Adelia Gloss (40), Matilda Pry (47), and The Ginks (61). Brendan Socket (50) has in it something of the Aesopic story The Lion in Love.
- Identifier
- en_US 1446 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Abelard-Schuman
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PS3563.A47 L5 1965 See all items with this value
- en_US Mangione See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books