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Best of Bad Hemingway: Vol 1 Vol. 1 : Choice Entries from the Harry's Bar and American Grill Imitation Hemingway Competition by Harry's Bar Harry's Bar & American Grill (1989, Trade Paperback)

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The rules of the competition are simple: sound like Hemingway and be funny. A "Trophy Room" section here includes Papa parodies from the past by F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. B. White, Raymond Chandler, et al. Introduction by George Plimpton; caricatures.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156118610
ISBN-13
9780156118613
eBay Product ID (ePID)
40502

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Book Title
Best of Bad Hemingway: Vol 1 Vol. 1 : Choice Entries from the Harry's Bar and American Grill Imitation Hemingway Competition
Author
Harry's Bar Harry's Bar & American Grill
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Topic / Adult, Form / Parodies
Publication Year
1989
Genre
Humor
Number of Pages
192 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.2in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
5.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pn6149.P3b47 1989
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For the past 11 years, Harry's Bar & Grill, in Century City, Calif., ran a promotional contest, now defunct, called the "International Imitation Hemingway Competition." Participants were asked to supply "a really good page of really bad Hemingway." There is much said about old men and bulls and hunting and fishing and eating and drinking and fighting and love in the 44 entries collected here. Hemingway fans will regard with great pleasure and approval such sendups as: " 'I wish boy were here,' he said softly, 'and I was at Harry's bar. Oh well,' he continued with truly unbelievable humility, 'at least I do not have a groin pull like the great Earl Campbell of the Oilers of Houston' "; his detractors might enjoy them even more. An additional nine pieces, written in the same spirit of malicious homage, are supplied by E. B. White, Raymond Chandler, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others, including Plimpton, who, in his introduction, explains the rules of the contest, laments its demise and notes Papa's disdain for the art form: "The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal." Illustrated with caricatures. First serial to the New York Times Book Review.
Copyright Date
1989
Lccn
88-026809
Dewey Decimal
818.540
Intended Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes

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by miimJan 07, 2022
I expected better from a book with this title
I don't know if they contracted the pieces for this book, or if they dug them out of other works, or what. Best summed up in: "For a book with this title, I expected better."
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