Bibliograph

You know me Al, a busher's letters, Ringgold Wilmer Lardner. Wilfrid Sheed [Vorr.]

Type

Label

You know me Al, a busher's letters, Ringgold Wilmer Lardner. Wilfrid Sheed [Vorr.]

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

You know me Al

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner. Wilfrid Sheed [Vorr.]

Series statement

Vintage fiction, poetry, and plays, Fiction

Sub title

a busher's letters

Summary

In the early decades of the twentieth century, newspaperman and humorist Ring Lardner (1885-1933) made America laugh with his hilarious depictions of odd characters in the sporting world, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood. His first great success was You Know Me Al, a fictional series of letters from a popular baseball hero to his friend, slyly revealing the letter writer as a crude, conceited, semiliterate, self-deceiving boob. The letters, created while Lardner was writing a sports column for The Chicago Tribune, first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and were later published in book form in 1918. You Know Me Al reveals Lardner as a satirical master at the peak of his form: a fine albeit misanthropic storyteller with a superb feel for the niceties of characters and speech and a sure instinct for provoking laughter

Target audience

adult

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