<![CDATA[The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx]]>

false <![CDATA[The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170888546m/76032.jpg 76032 15 <div>No personage is too big, no nuance too small, no subject too far out for Groucho’s spontaneous, hilarious, and ferocious typewriter. He writes to comics, corporations, children, presidents, and even his daughter’s boyfriend. Here is Groucho swapping photos with T. S. Eliot (”I had no idea you were so handsome!”); advising his son on courting a rich dame (”Don’t come out bluntly and say, ’How much dough have you got?’ That wouldn’t be the Marxian way”); crisply declining membership in a Hollywood club (”I don’t care to belong to any social organization that will accept me as a member”); reacting with utmost composure when informed that he has been made into a verb by James Joyce (”There’s no reason why I shouldn’t appear in <i>Finnegans Wake</i>. I’m certainly as bewildered about life as Joyce was”); responding to a scandal sheet (”Gentleman: If you continue to publish slanderous pieces about me, I shall feel compelled to cancel my subscription”); describing himself to the Lunts (”I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn’t end there”); and much, much more. That mobile visage, that look of wild amazement, and that weaving cigar are wholly captured, bound but untamed, in <i>The Groucho Letters.</i></div> 73624 1967 The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx total:163|5:53|4:67|3:35|2:8|1:0| 163 654 312 35 5 3 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Thu Oct 23 23:35:27 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 23:35:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 17:53:34 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 11:18:32 -0700 2009
I heard about this book on the radio. Some professional reader being interviewed talked about how he uses this book as lighthearted buffer, to take a break from denser reading material.

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