S.J. Perelman

The Rising Gorge

Collection of humorous essays ranging from nostalgia to social satire

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S.J. Perelman

S.J. Perelman was the supreme American prose comedian of the mid-twentieth century, whose dazzling verbal pyrotechnics influenced Woody Allen and many others. His New Yorker pieces and screenplays for the Marx Brothers are monuments of American humor.

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