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"item_title" : "You Know Me Al - Ring Lardner",
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"item_description" : "First great success of Ring Lardner was You Know Me Al, a fictional series of letters from a popular baseball hero to his friend, slowly revealing the hero as a semiliterate, crude, conceited, self-deceiving boob. This work was created while Lardner was writing a sports column for The Chicago Tribune, first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. It was later published in the book form in 1916. You Know Me Al shows Lardner as a satirical master: a fine and misanthropic storyteller with a excellent feel for the niceties of characters and speech.",
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Overview
First great success of Ring Lardner was "You Know Me Al", a fictional series of letters from a popular baseball hero to his friend, slowly revealing the hero as a semiliterate, crude, conceited, self-deceiving boob. This work was created while Lardner was writing a sports column for The Chicago Tribune, first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. It was later published in the book form in 1916. You Know Me Al shows Lardner as a satirical master: a fine and misanthropic storyteller with a excellent feel for the niceties of characters and speech.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781604244380
- ISBN-10: 1604244380
- Publisher: Book Jungle
- Publish Date: November 2007
- Dimensions: 9.25 x 7.5 x 0.52 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.95 pounds
- Page Count: 248
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