Haircut and Other Stories

by Ring Lardner

Book Overview

Fall into the sarcastic, realistic, and honest writing of beloved sports columnist Ring Lardner in this collection of stories from the author of You Know Me Al.

Bursting into the literary scene with the popular success, You Know Me Al, Ring Lardner was a sportswriter by trade with a superb ear for regional peculiarities in speech and a cherish sense of humor.

Funny, sarcastic, sometimes bitter, and always ironic,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0020223447
• ISBN13: 9780020223443
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

He'll make you laugh but you may feel crumby about it

There is a lot of really funny stuff . Consider the lines , "She looked at me like I was a side dish she hadn't ordered" Or another one in which a traveler is shown the Grand Canyon and says only , " What a hole" . This guy was tremendously funny and had a real feel for the slang and colloquial of his time. Maybe he didn't like people very much but he made it clear in an amusing way. " Still there are people who laugh at the guy who slips on the banana peel, and people who do not. Lardner is thus much less a favorite of mine other great American comic writers , not simply Twain but someone like Damon Runyan. Runyan loves his characters . Lardner seems to really like no one. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------