Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: Great Writers on Getting What You Want When You Want It
18209r.html to 0811818209-18209r.html : Thu Feb 15 18:12:30 PST 2001From: BooklistBy  Mary CarrollReaders whose teeth are set on edge by the excessive niceness evoked by the holiday season will relish the not-so-nice scalawags celebrated by U.S. writers in this collection. Editor Nickles takes her epigraph from Richard Nixon ("I am not a crook") and gathers a mixture of short stories (e.g., O. Henry, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Katherine Ann Porter, and Dorothy Parker), excerpts from longer fiction (Hammett'sThe Maltese Falcon) and nonfiction (Shere Hite, Russell Baker, Errol Flynn, and Ann Landers), humor from "professionals" like Woody Allen, Alexander Woollcott, S.J. Perelman, James Thurber, and Groucho Marx, and even a bit of poetry (e.e. cummings' "Frankie and Johnny") and drama (an excerpts from John Sayles' script for the filmEight Men Out) Certainly not an essential acquisition, but it may be useful for parents who've spent too long watching "Barney" or altruistic types who volunteer too much time at the local recycling center or organic-food cooperative.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.