{"product_id":"9780962784163","title":"Stet, Damnit!: The Misanthrope's Corner: 1991 to 2002 the Complete, Unabridged Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlorence King is back-in a big, hardcover book that will warm the cockles of every conservative, libertarian, and just-plain-cynical heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSTET, Damnit!: The Misanthrope’s Corner, 1991 to 2002\u003c\/i\u003e lets you relive and relish the unsurpassed prose of one of America’s most heralded writers. Word for word, no one punched with the force of Miss King’s clock-cleaning verbiage! During her \u003ci\u003eNational Review \u003c\/i\u003etenure, no one but no one better expressed what was on our minds, as Florence derided dunderheads, disemboweled sacred cows, trashed trends, and lampooned the lame-brained. For over a decade her wise words were the proverbial two-by-four that smacked upside the thick and dense heads of busybodies, chin-droolers, feel-gooders, store-greeters, plagiarists, teddy-bear memorializers, whiners, wanna-be victims, crisis-counseling apostles, and many more of society’s more annoying types.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow all that crackling prose, all that slashing, burning, vim, vigor, and verbal vinegar that made Florence King and “The Misanthrope’s Corner” a must-read has been collected — every single enjoyable, nincompoop-poohing word — in \u003ci\u003eSTET, Damnit!\u003c\/i\u003e This handsome hardcover edition contains 524 pages of 200-proof pure-grain Florence, distilling every word from every column (including the typos we let slip through in the originals!) that the Mother of All Curmudgeons wrote for her revered \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e column. Florence’s back-page masterpieces still resound and reverberate — even a dozen years later, no matter how “dated” the topic, Miss King’s magic still dazzles. Her unorthodox and unexpected take on a sweeping array of subjects — politics, fads, court rulings, murderesses, scandals, recounts, you name it — remains crisp, fresh, insightful, intelligent, engaging, and always entertaining. The prose still snaps — and the terrible swift pen still slashes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"National Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013478564080,"sku":"9780962784163","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780962784163","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}