{"product_id":"james-thurber-years-with-ross-the-9780060959715","title":"Years with Ross, The","description":"From iconic American humorist James\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthe magazine’s unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross “Extremely entertaining. . . . life\n\u003cbr\u003e\nat The New Yorker emerges as a lovely sort of pageant of lunacy, of practical\n\u003cbr\u003e\njokes, of feuds and foibles. It is an affectionate picture of scamps playing their\n\u003cbr\u003e\ngames around a man who, for all his brusqueness, loved them, took care of them,\n\u003cbr\u003e\npampered and scolded them like an irascible mother hen.” —New York Times With a foreword by Adam Gopnik and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nillustrations by James Thurber At\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthe helm of America’s most influential literary magazine from 1925 to 1951,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHarold Ross introduced the country to a host of exciting talent, including Robert\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBenchley, Alexander Woollcott, Ogden Nash, Peter Arno, Charles Addams, and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDorothy Parker. But no one could have written about this irascible, eccentric genius\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmore affectionately or more critically than James Thurber, whose portrait of\n\u003cbr\u003e\nRoss captures not only a complex literary giant but a historic friendship and a\n\u003cbr\u003e\nglorious era as well. \"If you get Ross down on paper,\" warned Wolcott\n\u003cbr\u003e\nGibbs to Thurber,\" nobody will ever believe it.\" But readers of this\n\u003cbr\u003e\nunforgettable memoir will find that they do.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nOffering\n\u003cbr\u003e\na peek into the lives of two American literary giants and the New York literary\n\u003cbr\u003e\nscene at its heyday, The Years with Ross is a true classic, and a\n\u003cbr\u003e\ntestament to the enduring influence of their genius. ","brand":"Harper Perennial Modern Classics","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53402622755158,"sku":"9780060959715-V","price":4.69,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780060959715_1.jpg?v=1778030918","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/james-thurber-years-with-ross-the-9780060959715","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}