{"product_id":"9780486148472","title":"Frank Sullivan at His Best","description":"In the 1930s and 40s, humorist Frank Sullivan took dead aim at the American scene in hilarious pieces written for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Saturday Evening Post, Town and Country,\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications. Dispensing humorous commentary and criticisms that could be gentle or cutting, sad or sympathetic, he entertained without ever being mean-spirited or condescending.\u003cbr\u003eThis delightful volume includes 42 of his best pieces. Selected from three earlier collections — \u003ci\u003eA Pearl in Every Oyster, The Night the Old Nostalgia Burned Down, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e A Rock in Every Snowball \u003c\/i\u003e— they include an amusingly nostalgic account of \"The Passing of the Old Front Porch,\" a humorous recollection of campus life in \"An Old Grad Remembers,\" and a gentle put-down of the Lone Star State in \"An Innocent in Texas.\" Readers will also enjoy such droll fare as \"A Bachelor Looks at Breakfast,\" \"How to Change a Typewriter Ribbon,\" and a selection of amusing commentaries by Mr. Arbuthnot, the cliché expert, on war, baseball, tabloids, and other topics.\u003cbr\u003eWonderfully good-natured, in the spirit of Robert Benchley, this vintage humor will tickle modern funny bones and keep readers chuckling at Sullivan's tongue-in-cheek comments on wealth of subjects from the not-so-distant past.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126392340720,"sku":"9780486148472","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780486148472_p0.jpg?v=1763708596","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780486148472","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}