{"product_id":"wry-martinis-9780060977429","title":"Wry Martinis","description":"\"Fifty years ago, the three funniest writers in the English language were named Shaw, Mencken and Muggeridge. Today, they're named Thompson, O'Rourke and Christopher Buckley.Read this book and you'll die laughing. But as Wrong-Way Kennedy said, 'What a way to go.'\"\u003cbr\u003e -- Tom Wolfe\u003cp\u003e\"Funny and devastating.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- \u003cem\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Clever, erudite, sophisticated, funny and flip. Buckley shows that his antennae are ever alert to the absurdities in our world.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- \u003cem\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Buckley's comic muse -- and as \u003cem\u003eWry Martinis\u003c\/em\u003e attests, he is one of the rarest specimens in his generation of that endangered species, the authentically inventive comic writer -- adorns the Benchley-Thurber line of social observation. He is probably the most versatile practitioner of that tradition today.... \u003cem\u003eWry Martinis\u003c\/em\u003e has an astonishing range, all the way from the history of the miniskirt to the language of the New American Bible.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuckley, Christopher:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Buckley, whose novel themovie is based on, is the editor of \u003cem\u003eForbesFYI\u003c\/em\u003e magazine and the author of elevenbooks, many of them national bestsellers, including \u003cem\u003eThank You for Smoking\u003c\/em\u003e. He isthe winner of the distinguished ThurberPrize for American humor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50317861159186,"sku":"9780060977429","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cf267eac-112b-4d71-9529-5e1ab6e82fd1.jpg?v=1727541573","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wry-martinis-9780060977429","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}