| a survival manual for anyone who hasever arisen with the conviction that onlyby keeping his eyes tightly closedthroughout the day will he perhaps by-pass the banana peels of fate, dodge thehurtling anvils of idiocy, and skirt theopen manholes of mayhem--and thusarrive home again to the safe harbor ofevening and insomnia. Roger Angell sstratagem is laughter and style. His daybegins in the portentous manner of aJim Bishop biographee ("Angell clearshis throat. A thought is on the way to histongue. The mouth opens ") andends with the midnight discovery of aJapanese sniper hiding in his pajamasand the invention of the world slonuest nalindrome. |
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