4 Novels by by Peter De Vries
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Overview: Peter De Vries is responsible for contributing to the cultural vernacular such witticisms as "Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be" and "Deep down, he’s shallow." He was, according to Kingsley Amis, "the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic." “Quick with quips so droll and witty, so penetrating and precise that you almost don’t feel them piercing your pretensions, Peter De Vries was perhaps America’s best comic novelist not named Mark Twain. . .” (Sam McManis, Sacramento Bee).
Genre: General Fiction/Classics Humor
Consenting Adults: Or, The Duchess Will Be Furious
Ted Peachum’s increasingly erotic involvement with police woman Kathy Arpeggio, sumptuous brewery heiress Snooky von Sickle, and his best friend’s virginal younger sister climaxes in a riotous hotel affair with the Peppermint Sisters–triplets
Peckham’s Marbles
If you’ve never experienced the delightful contemporary humor of Peter DeVries, here’s your chance. If you are a fan, then you know just to relax and listen to another of his stories of laughter and human vulnerability.
Sauce for the Goose
Daisy Dobbin is an undercover feminist out to study sexual harassment in business offices, particularly that of Metropole magazine. To research it, of course, she must attract it – and thereby hangs the tale. The irony of her falling in love with the boss is serendipity enough without a resulting down-to-the-wire rivalry with a sister conspirator, her old girlhood chum Effie Sniffen. This the war between men and women becomes thematically interlocked with the competition among women for men, a double motif effected with all the comic subtlety we have come to expect from De Vries.
The Prick of Noon
Eddie Teeters is simultaneously pursued by three would-be wives and a federal agent who wants Eddie convicted on obscenity charges for his part in a series of explicit sex-counseling videotapes
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