Cloudland Revisited : a misspent youth in books and film /

"From October 1948 to October 1953, The New Yorker published humorist S. J. Perelman's "Cloudland Revisited" series: twenty-two reviews of once-popular books and silent films whose expiration dates had passed. All but forgotten even at the time, they were nonetheless part of Pere...

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Main Author: Perelman, S. J. (Sidney Joseph), 1904-1979
Other Authors: Gopnik, Adam
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Library of America, ©2024
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