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Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia -
the school of John Updike and Cheever - these three works from the
great American humorist Peter De Vries look with laughter upon its
lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort.
De Vries' classic situation comedy The Tunnel of Love follows the
interactions of a socially insecure, pun-loving family man, an
officious lady caseworker from an adoption agency, and a chauvinist
pig - all suburban neighbors who know far too much about one
another's private lives in this goofy and gently hilarious tale of
marital quibbles. A manic epic, Reuben, Reuben is really three
books in one, tied together by a 1950s suburban Connecticut setting
and hyper-literate cast of characters. A corruptible chicken farmer
fearful for the fate of his beloved town, a womanizing poet from
Wales (Dylan Thomas in disguise), and a hapless British
poet-cum-actor-and-agent all take turns as narrator, revealing
different, even conflicting views. But alcoholism, sexism,
small-mindedness, and calamity challenge the high spirits of De
Vries' well-read suburbanites. Without a Stitch in Time, a
selection of forty-six articles and stories written for the New
Yorker between 1943 and 1973, offers pun-filled autobiographical
vignettes that reveal the source of De Vries' nervous wit: the
cognitive dissonance between his Calvinist upbringing in 1920s
Chicago and the all-too-perfect postwar world.
"A Friendly Letter to Skeptics and Atheists" helps readers--both
secular and religious--appreciate their common ground. For those
whose thinking has moved from the religious thesis to the skeptical
antithesis (or vice versa), Myers offers pointers to a
science-respecting Christian synthesis. He shows how skeptics and
people of faith can share a commitment to reason, evidence, and
critical thinking, while also embracing a faith that supports human
flourishing--by making sense of the universe, giving meaning to
life, connecting us in supportive communities, mandating altruism,
and offering hope in the face of adversity and death.
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