The Chicago of Europe: And Other Tales of Foreign Travel - Hardcover

Twain, Mark

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9781402758690: The Chicago of Europe: And Other Tales of Foreign Travel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402758693 ISBN 13: 9781402758690

Publisher: Union Square Press, 2009

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Travel yarns that only America’s best-loved author could spin.

With a sharp eye and an even sharper wit, Twain is the quintessential tour guide to 19th-century America. Dispatches showcasing his caustic, gimlet-eyed humor will take readers on a trot around the globe, from Hawaii to the Holy Land to Berlin ( Europe’s Chicago”).

The delicious assemblage of 68 tales features Twain’s trademark style a combination of breezy insouciance and droll barbarism at its very best.

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About the Author:

Peter Kaminsky was managing editor of National Lampoon, a Rolling Stone staff writer, New York Magazine’s Underground Gourmet,” and an award-winning columnist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, among others. He is the creator of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, awarded to such luminaries as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Carl Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin, and Billy Crystal.

Review:

Kaminsky's collection shows that Mark Twain is still our foremost American humorist. He should be on at ten p.m.” Billy Crystal

There is no great American writer easier to love than Mark Twain, and as I realized reading this delicious collection no part of Twain's oeuvre easier to love than his travel writing. Wandering around exotic places and among foreign people gives him the ideal opportunity to be his uniquely engaging self not quite an innocent or a tramp but a curious, clear-eyed and totally American chronicler abroad: totally game, bewitched and appalled, funny and astounded.” Kurt Andersen

Mark Twain would have been thrilled to know that Peter Kaminsky put this collection together. I know I am, and all Twain lovers will be, too.” Carl Reiner

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