Christmas at New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor & Art (HB)
New Yorker
Here are eight decades of holiday cheer - plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking - in this collection of The New Yorker`s best seasonal stories, poems, commentary, and memoirs, illuminated with color reproductions of Christmas-themed covers and, of course, a healthy smattering of cartoons from all eras. Here are such classics as John Cheever`s 1949 story "Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor", about an elevator operator in a Park Avenue apartment building who experiences the fickle power of charity; John Updike`s "The Carol Sing", in which a group of small-town carolers remember an exceptionally enthusiastic fellow singer ("How he would jubilate, how he would God-rest those merry gentlemen, how he would boom out when the male...
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6341-3
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011