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humor book OBVIOUSLY ON HE SAILS signed by CALVIN TRILLIN 2004 hc 1st ed RH
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed By
- Calvin Trillin
- Original Language
- English
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Personalized
- No
- Signed
- Yes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Subject
- poetry / humor
- Edition
- First Edition
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781400062881
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400062888
ISBN-13
9781400062881
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30469500
Product Key Features
Book Title
Obliviously on He Sails : the Bush Administration in Rhyme
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Topic / Politics, Form / Limericks & Verse, Form / Parodies
Genre
Humor
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Item Length
7.3 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-045052
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Synopsis
Does the Bush Administration sound any better in rhyme? In this biting array of verse, it at least sounds funnier. Calvin Trillin employs everything from a Gilbert and Sullivan style, for describing George Bush's rescue in the South Carolina primary by the Christian Right ("I am, when all is said and done, a Robertson Republican"), to a bilingual approach, when commenting on the President's casual acknowledgment, after months of trying to persuade the nation otherwise, that there was never any evidence of Iraqi involvement in 9/11: "The Web may say, or maybe Lexis-Nexis / If chutzpa is a word they use in Texas." Trillin deals not only with George W. Bush but with the people around him--Supreme Commander Karl Rove and Condoleezza (Mushroom Cloud) Rice and Nanny Dick Cheney ("One mystery I've tried to disentangle: / Why Cheney's head is always at an angle . . .") The armchair warriors Trillin refers to as the Sissy Hawk Brigade are celebrated in such poems as "Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He?" and "A Sissy Hawk Cheer" ("All-out war is still our druthers-- / Fiercely fought, and fought by others."). Trillin may never be poet laureate--certainly not while George W. Bush is in office--but his wit and his political insight produce what has been called "doggerel for the ages."
LC Classification Number
PS3570.R5O25 2004
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