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No, But I Saw The Movie: Peter De Vries
No, But I Saw The Movie: Peter De Vries
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Short articles of a Fifties vintage: cigarettes, awful food, marriage, trying to keep up appearances, life, death, growing up, getting a job and becoming a young man...not to mention a Dutch Reformed religious upbringing. Many of de Vries' quirkies have become part of the vernacular: Nostalgia ain't what it used to be and Deep down, he's shallow....or his comparison of a conscience to a car brake... because it doesn’t work in emergencies, only when one is morally parked. His first novel, The Tunnel of Love, became a Broadway play and a movie with Doris Day and Gig Young. Chapters include: Flesh and the Devil; A Cold Potato; Requiem for a Noun; Life Among the Winesaps and more with equally intriguing titles. He had a fabulous gift for spotting cant, fatuousness, snobbery and grandly silly dialogue.
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1st edition by Victor Gollancz 1954; hardback; no dust jacket; a little foxing to title page only; tightly bound and clean within; gift inscription; scarce U.K. 1st, Antiquities & OdditiesShare
