New Yorker: Christmas at the New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
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Жанр : Daedalus Books
Издательство : Daedalus Books
Год издания : 2004
Аннотация:
Here are eight decades of holiday cheer — plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking — in this collection of The New Yorker's best seasonal stories, poems, commentary, and memoirs, illuminated with color reproductions of Christmas-themed covers and, of course, a healthy smattering of cartoons from all eras. Here are such classics as John Cheever's 1949 story «Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor», about an elevator operator in a Park Avenue apartment building who experiences the fickle power of charity; John Updike's «The Carol Sing», in which a group of small-town carolers remember an exceptionally enthusiastic fellow singer («How he would jubilate, how he would God-rest those merry gentlemen, how he would boom out when the male voices became King Wenceslas»); and Richard Ford's acerbic and elegiac 1998 story «Crèche», in which an unmarried Hollywood lawyer spends an unsettling holiday with her sister's estranged husband and kids. Here too are S.J. Perelman's 1936 «Waiting for Santy», a playlet in the style of a Cliff Odets labor drama (the setting: «The sweatshop of Santa Claus, North Pole»), and Vladimir Nabokov's heartbreaking 1975 story «Christmas», in which a father grieving for his lost son in a world «ghastly with sadness» sees a tiny miracle on Christmas Eve.