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You Know Me Al
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: 9781594625671
- ISBN-10: 1594625670
- Publisher: Book Jungle
- Publish Date: March 2007
- Dimensions: 9.25 x 7.5 x 0.53 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.97 pounds
- Page Count: 252
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