Buy this book on-line HARRIS,MARK**: : WAKE UP, STUPID.**LONDON.ANDRE DEUTSCH,1960.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Blue background upper panel and spine/
backstrip with four colour (green, white, pink and darker pink), block capital letters, lightly grubbed rear panel with monochrome, author portrait photograph and
publishers potted biography.Minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges with
a tiny closed tear to top edge and a tiny closed tear to upper front corner - no other nicks or tears present and spine/
backstrip lightly dulled.Top edge slightly
aged and dust-soiled with some spotting as
usual/normal;fore-edge considerably cleaner and less aged and negligible marks,contents bright,tight and virtually pristine with no foxing,no dog-ear creases to pages' corners - could appear as unread but for the ageing defects described.Unblemished, plain green
paper-covered bds with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps,to white eps.8vo,4-239pp includes title+ half-title pages.
Suppose you stumble on a correspondence and are shameless enough to start reading.
'This is quite a character,' you think.
'What is he up to?' That is what starting
'Wake up, Stupid' is like.It takes the form of letters from and to Professor Lee Youngdahl, of a Californian University, who has just finished writing a brilliant play and has resolved to keep in trim by writing at least one letter a day.His motive is partly to catch up with his mail, but mostly to start something - he is not quite sure what - humming.It soon becomes evident that Lee is an unorthodox Professor.He owns 6.25% of a heavyweight boxer, and is no mean boxer himself.He is also a parachute jumper, a flouter of the Mormon Church and a flirter with actresses.Perhaps he will not go on being a professor for much longer.As letter follows letter the story becomes clear and
the characters even clearer.Lee himself is a masterpiece:a genius perhaps;anyway a whole man, whom you feel you have known for years, have laughed with, quarrelled with and loved.By the time he has been knocked out by his own investment, has stolen an admirer's car and landed in a Chicago police station, you can't bear to let him go.This is a book so alive and funny that it makes many of its contemporaries look like stuffed vegetable
marrows.See also rja1952 - another copy.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Blue background upper panel and spine/
backstrip with four colour (green, white, pink and darker pink), block capital letters, lightly grubbed rear panel with monochrome, author portrait photograph and publishers potted biography.Minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to dw/dj edges, miniscule rubbing to top corners and head of spine/backstrip, which also slightly dulled, a miniscule nick with loss to foot of spine/ backstrip, text virtually unaffected - no other nicks or tears present.Top edge slightly aged and dust- soiled with some spotting/foxing as usual/normal;fore-edge considerably less aged and marginally spotted;contents bright, tight and clean.
Unblemished, plain green paper-covered bds
with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps, to white eps.8vo, 4- 239pp includes title+half-title pages.
Suppose you stumble on a correspondence and are shameless enough to start reading.
'This is quite a character,' you think.
That is what starting 'Wake up, Stupid' is like.It takes the form of letters from and to Professor Lee Youngdahl, of a Californian university, who has just finished a brilliant play and has resolved to keep in trim by writing at least one letter a day.His motive is partly to catch up with his mail, but mostly to start something - he is not quite sure what - humming.It soon becomes evident that Lee is an unorthodox professor.He owns 6.25% of a heavyweight boxer, and is no mean boxer himself.He is also a parachute jumper, a flouter of the Mormon Church and a flirter with actresses.
Perhaps he will not go on being a professor for much longer.As letter follows letter the story becomes clear and the characters even clearer.Lee himself is a masterpiece:a genius perhaps;
anyway a whole man, whom you feel you have
known for years, have laughed with, quarrelled with and loved.By the time he has been knocked out by his own investment, has stolen an admirer's car and landed in a Chicago police station, you can't bear to let him go.This is a book so alive and funny that it makes many of its contemporaries look like stuffed vegetable marrows.See also rja1951, another copy, marginally better, condition-wise.
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