S.J. Perelman A Life

Putnam Pub Group. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 039913154X . White / grey hardcovers in Near Fine condition with a solid binding and an unmarked text. A stamp to the front free end paper with some tanning to the pages. The DJ is clipped and in Very Good+ condition with light cover edgewear and scuffing. "This is a biography of S. J. Perelman, an American wit and sardonic humourist who won international acclaim as a writer for the "New Yorker" and as a contributor to the Marx brothers' "Animal Crackers" and "Horse Feathers" and to the classic "Around the World in Eighty Days" for which he was awarded an Oscar and as a radio and television personality. The man is also described as an extremely complex, often troubled individual. From his poverty-stricken childhood to his days at Brown University, from his constant struggles with his work to his consuming relations with Nathaniel West (his wife's sister) , this portrait is filled with unpublished anecdotes illuminating a personality at once elusive, sad tormented and uproariously funny. "; 9.10 X 6.10 X 1.20 inches; 337 pages .