{"product_id":"conversations-with-james-thurber-hardcover","title":"Conversations with James Thurber - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Fensch\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003cem\u003eConversations with James Thurber\u003c\/em\u003e, this remarkable man, who has been called America's twentieth-century Mark Twain, and who was one of the great talkers of his time, expresses his opinions on just about everything and recounts stories and anecdotes about his life which provided the basis of much of his humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this captivating anthology of interviews with a great American humorist, James Thurber can be heard again, sharing his memories and insights, his wit and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e These interviews span 22 years, from 1939 to 1961. In them Thurber recounts his youth in Columbus, Ohio, his struggles as a student at Ohio State University and his days of literary and journalistic apprenticeship in Europe as a code clerk and newspaperman, when he had to recreate entire artciles from a few words of coded copy from the wire services.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ...Thurber tells too, of his early days in New York city when he joined the staff of \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/em\u003e of the origins of his drawings, of the pleasures that word games and puzzles gave him, and of his increasing blindness and its effect on his work, and his perceptions of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In these pages, one can hear Thurber again and can visualize the Thurber men, the Thurber women, the Thurber dogs and the Thurber drawings as he reveals his own unique work and his interactions with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 25, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751218381088,"sku":"9781736057520","price":50.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8c1fd37891adbbf2468bc458c58cc7a2.webp?v=1779967747","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/conversations-with-james-thurber-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}