{"product_id":"crazy-like-a-fox-the-classic-comedy-collection-9781598537789","title":"Crazy Like a Fox: The Classic Comedy Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): S. J. Perelman | Joshua Cohen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Library of America\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Library of America\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Form - Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beloved classic returns: S. J. Perelman's own selection of the very best of his hilarious stories and sketches \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46317470384279,"sku":"9781598537789","price":1553.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781598537789.webp?v=1767711103","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/crazy-like-a-fox-the-classic-comedy-collection-9781598537789","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}