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020 $a0679452338 (alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPN6162$b.B798 1997
082 00 $a814/.54$220
100 1 $aBuckley, Christopher,$d1952-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86012212
245 10 $aWry martinis /$cChristopher Buckley.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axxiv, 294 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aBuckley's frequent New Yorker contributions to the back-page "Shouts and Murmurs" column have been a regular source of hilarity: The Pope's appearance on Oprah to promote his book; letters of recommendation for O. J.
520 8 $aSimpson's New York condo application; a review of Peter Benchley's new book, Gills, about a vengeful Dolly Varden trout; the starship Enterprise's most daring and difficult assignment - programming its VCR; and several dozen other delightful New Yorker parodies, satires, and pastiches are all collected here.
520 8 $aBuckley has occasionally been the source of controversy, as when he perpetrated a highly efficient and successful hoax claiming that the Kremlin was about to auction off the embalmed remains of Lenin in order to raise hard currency. A review he wrote of one of Tom Clancy's novels so infuriated the novelist that he launched fax cruise missiles at Buckley - providing Buckley with ammunition for his counterstrike.
520 8 $aWhen not annoying the Russian Interior Ministry or megaselling thriller writers, Buckley embarks on unusual adventures of his own: steaming up the Amazon in the company of billionaires and deposed European royalty, spelunking in Mayan caves, landing on the deck of the U.S.S. Nimitz, and hurtling about the wild blue yonder with the Thunderbirds (see "How I Went Nine Gs in an F-16 and Only Threw Up Five Times").
650 0 $aAmerican wit and humor.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004424
852 00 $boff,glx$hPN6162$i.B798 1997