Peter De Vries has been called by Kingsley Amis "the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic" and by W. J. Smith "the greatest punster the world has ever known." The author ...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Cerf
QUESTION: Is it possible to cram into a novel every joke the theme and plot will allow, then add a couple of hundred more for good measure, and still maintain, from...
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Critical Essay by Thomas Meehan
["Slouching Towards Kalamazoo"] is vintage De Vries, a perfect example of the sort of hilarious and expertly crafted comic novel that he amazingly seems ...
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Critical Essay by J. H. Bowden
[But Who Wakes the Bugler?, De Vries's first published novel,] has a certain charm as a product of its time. And it is dated: not only is there a stage Negro, Ju...
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Critical Essay by T. Jeff Evans
Tunnel of Love [1954] uses most of the components of the enduring De Vries pattern: the world is suburbia, USA, and its characters the middle or upper-middle class who...
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Critical Essay by Stuart Sutherland
Kingsley Amis once remarked of Peter De Vries: "I would rate him the funniest serious writer on either side of the Atlantic." De Vries's humou...
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Critical Essay by Peter Andrews
"Sauce for the Goose" establishes once again that even a weak Peter De Vries novel is fun to read. Many of Mr. De Vries's major faults are brought...
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Critical Essay by Anthony Burgess
Peter De Vries's old habit, sustained through twenty novels, of larding his narrative with mots, wisecracks, and malapropisms has been regarded by some as a v...
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Critical Essay by Rhoda Koenig
"She would be sitting at the window, eating fruit out of the hubcap." That's the kind of sentence you run across in a Peter De Vries novel—i...
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Critical Essay by James Wolcott
[Peter De Vries] has been taking his cuts in the batting cage for quite a spell now, turning out twenty books of fiction in the last four decades. But a writer—...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Yardley
It goes without saying that Peter De Vries is terrifically amusing in this, his 21st work of fiction. As in many of his recent books, he tells in Slouching Towards ...
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Critical Essay by Michiko Kakutani
"I seem to bear my share of responsibility, for the chuckles and chortles, all of them naturally nervous and not a few hideously forced, that went around our...
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Dutch bank ABN Amro's decision to accept an $86.4 billion buyout offer from Barclays drew derision, including threats of a lawsuit, from shareholders on Thursday who want the bank to accept a poten...
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A Dutch court blocked ABN Amro's planned sale of a Chicago bank on Thursday, a ruling that makes it more likely a group led by Royal Bank of Scotland will capture ABN Amro in the industry's largest...
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