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ISBN: 1932416838

ISBN13: 9781932416831

Bowl of Cherries

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Item: Bowl of Cherries
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By Millard Kaufman

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The brilliant creation of ninety-year-old debut novelist Millard Kaufman, co-creator of Mr. Magoo and twice-nominated for Academy Awards for screenwriting, Bowl of Cherries rivals the liveliest comic epics for giddy wordplay and gleeful invention. Kicked out of Yale at the age of fourteen, Judd Breslau falls in with Phillips Chatterton, a bathrobe-wearing Egyptologist working out of a dilapidated home laboratory. Entranced by Chatterton's daughter, Valerie, Breslau abandons his studies and decides to move in with the eccentric scientist and assist with research. But the work is not what Judd had thought and, mesmerized by Valerie, Breslau follows her to a number of strange locales--a secret attic in her father's home, a Colorado equestrian ranch, and a porn studio beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. Judd ultimately makes his way to the forlorn Iraqi province of Assama, ending up in a jail cell from which he narrates the novel, awaiting his execution while war rages on around him.Kaufman's debut is a book of astounding breadth and sharp consequences, containing all the joy, madness, terror, and doubt of adolescence and everything after. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1932416838

ISBN13:9781932416831

Release Date:August 2007

Publisher:McSweeney's

Length:326 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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Rated 5 stars
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By Thriftbooks.com User, November 19, 2008

I just finished this amazing comic novel and it's still reverberating in the back of my mind. Erudite, cosmopolitan and witty, if you loved Catch 22 or A Confederacy of Dunces, you will love this book! Author of the new historical novel... [ASIN:1934037397 Judge Fogg]]

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Rated 5 stars
Much like a bowl of cherries ...

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 27, 2007

... not too sweet, and not too tart; but a delicious mouthful bursting with both. This novel reads as a fun, satirical frolic with plenty of unexpected twists. I found myself avidly enjoying each chapter like a ripe cherry on a late summer's eve. There is a plentitude of $5 words which can lead you off on fun tangents of exploration in your handy dictionary; or like I did, one can underline them and return like a squirrel...

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Rated 5 stars
If you like Vonnegut you will enjoy Bowl of Cherries

By Thriftbooks.com User, September 25, 2007

I don't think it's any coincedence that a 90-year old reminds me of Vonnegut, but this is a terrific book that a lot of my friends are getting from me for the holidays. Very funny, very satiric, very good.

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Rated 5 stars
in the tradition of Voltaire

By Thriftbooks.com User, September 17, 2007

Social satire in the grand tradition of Voltaire. Written with a vocabulary that has the precision of a surgeon's knife. A book for the cerebrating person.

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