Slouching Towards Kalamazoo: A Novel
By Peter De Vries and Derek De Vries
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Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries (1910–1993) was born in Chicago to Dutch immigrant parents. His father wanted him to join the clergy, but after attending Calvin College and Northwestern University, De Vries found work as a vending-machine operator, a toffee-apple salesman, a radio actor, and an editor at Poetry magazine. His friend and mentor James Thurber brought him to the attention of the New Yorker, and in 1944 De Vries moved to New York to become a regular staff contributor to the magazine, where he worked for the next forty years. A prolific author of novels, short stories, parodies, poetry, and essays, he published twenty-seven books during his lifetime and was heralded by Kingsley Amis as the “funniest serious writer to be found either side of the Atlantic.” De Vries was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1983, taking his place alongside Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, and S. J. Perelman as one of the nation’s greatest wits.
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Reviews for Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sophisticated and funny, this book flatters the reader with its vocabulary and tone of snarky hipness. Very satisfying.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the very best of DeVries's comic novels. He returns to his best theme, religion and sex, and . . . what a romp he has!