Haircut and Other Stories
by admin on July 6, 2010
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Ring Lardner first burst upon the literary scene with his greatest popular success, "You Know Me Al". A sportswriter by trade, Lardner had a superb ear for regional peculiarities in speech and was loved for his sense of humor. Funny, sarcastic, sometimes bitter but always ironic, Lardner understood Americans-- their desires, their dreams, and their disappointments. Contained in "Haircut and Other Stories" are some of Lardner's best-known pieces: "Haircut", "Alibi Ik... Click Here for Detials 
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Even Monsters Need Haircuts
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Product Description Just before midnight, on the night of a full moon, a young barber stays out past his bedtime to go to work. Although his customers are mostly regulars, they are anything but normal—after all, even monsters need haircuts...
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Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies
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Tom Perrotta made his literary debut with his short story collection Bad Haircut, earning critical praise and comparisons to Salinger, Carver, and Roth by taking readers to New Jersey in the 1970s as a boy named Buddy struggles with the timeless mysteries of sex, death, parents-and of course, bad haircuts.
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Haircut and Other Stories
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I had this book in hardback and it dissappeared when I lent it to a friend. A long time went buy until I found Amazon and was able to replace the book. To tell you the truth I enjoyed it even more the second time around. Alibi Ike could probably make someone laugh on his way to the electric chair. Also for young people, this book could show you the path we followed to get here.
Frank Callender-Reviewer
Rating: 5 / 5
There is a lot of really funny stuff . Consider the lines , “She looked at me like I was a side dish she hadn’t ordered” Or another one in which a traveler is shown the Grand Canyon and says only , ” What a hole” . This guy was tremendously funny and had a real feel for the slang and colloquial of his time. Maybe he didn’t like people very much but he made it clear in an amusing way. ” Still there are people who laugh at the guy who slips on the banana peel, and people who do not.
Lardner is thus much less a favorite of mine other great American comic writers , not simply Twain but someone like Damon Runyan. Runyan loves his characters . Lardner seems to really like no one.
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Rating: 4 / 5