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Ladataan... Municipal Bondage: One Man's Anxiety-Producing Adventures in the Big City (1993)Tekijä: Henry Alford
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"Some of civilization's greatest thinkers and artists have endured the shackles of imprisonment: Socrates. Galileo. Dostoyevsky. Havel. James Brown. They have suffered, and they have taught the world a lesson. Now it is Henry Alford's turn." "An adventurous and rather odd young man who has made it his mission to probe the mysteries of the big city, Alford joins the ranks of civilization's great prisoners in Municipal Bondage, a unique collection of pranks, comic investigations, essays, and musings that reflect Alford's distinct realm of urban psychic confinement." "There is no one else on the literary humor scene like Henry Alford - for good reason. What other writer is brave enough to take a dog-grooming test intended for professionals? Attractive enough to pass himself off as a high-ranked earlobe model? Political enough to chauffeur the governor of Colorado during the Democratic National Convention? Or entrepreneurial enough to invent, bake, and peddle his own yummy snack food, Nubbins? Working undercover, Alford uses his self-taught skills as an investigative humorist to do all of this and so much more that readers will be dizzy with delight." "Interspersed among Alford's exploits are witty essays about city life and a hilarious series of ponderings that all begin with the phrase "What if..." and answer such lingering conundrums as: What if Freud had been a former fashion model? What if the Bronte sisters had been a heavy-metal band? And, of course, what if the Pope were a dog?" "Henry Alford is a major comic talent. Municipal Bondage is inescapably brilliant."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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First, Alford provides some incredibly witty accounts of different "investigations" he conducts in New York City, such as hiring a clutter consultant, trying to get some fake heirlooms auctioned off at Sotheby's, trying to find a good bed and breakfast in Manhattan, hiring a nude housecleaning service, etc. In between each of these stories are some hilarious lists, such as "What if Frank Sinatra taught acting at UCLA" or "What if unemployed actors worked at banks instead of restaurants". The whole thing is great.
I found myself consistently laughing at some of the things Alford did in his investigations, such as gauging what happened when he asked the nude housecleaners to do things like bleach his tub or wash his windows from the outside. All in all, this is a very satisfying book for any fan of humor. ( )