Peter De Vries

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The Blood of the Lamb (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

Beschreibung

This autobiographical novel of family tragedy by the author of Slouching Towards Kalamazoo "moves deftly from manic hilarity to manic fury, and back again" ( Newsday). The most poignant of Peter De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lambis also his most personal. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the 1950s through the loss of a brother, his faith, his wife, and finally his daughter-a tragedy drawn directly from De Vries's own life. Despite its basis in personal tragedy, The Blood of the Lamboffers glimpses of the comic sensibility for which De Vries was famous. Written with a powerful blend of grief, love, wit, and fury, De Vries's "sensitive treatment of the death of a beloved child it has scarcely a superior in contemporary fiction" ( Chicago Tribune).

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Autor

Peter De Vries (1910-1993) was born in Chicago to Dutch immigrant parents. His father wanted him to join the clergy, but after attending Calvin College and Northwestern University, De Vries found work as a vending-machine operator, a toffee-apple salesman, a radio actor, and an editor at Poetrymagazine. His friend and mentor James Thurber brought him to the attention of the New Yorker, and in 1944 De Vries moved to New York to become a regular staff contributor to the magazine, where he worked for the next forty years. A prolific author of novels, short stories, parodies, poetry, and essays, he published twenty-seven books during his lifetime and was heralded by Kingsley Amis as the "funniest serious writer to be found either side of the Atlantic." De Vries was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1983, taking his place alongside Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, and S. J. Perelman as one of the nation's greatest wits.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226149172
• Artikelnr.: 50744295