Pushcart's complete Rotten reviews & rejections

by Bernard, André Henderson, Bill

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Title Statements

Full title :Pushcart's complete Rotten reviews & rejections / edited by Bill Henderson & André Bernard ; designed and illustrated by Mary Kornblum ; introductions by Anthony Brandt & Bill Henderson.

Summary

"A few years ago, Pushcart Press issued a series of three books: Rotten Reviews and Rotten Reviews II, edited by Bill Henderson, and Rotten Rejections, edited by André Bernard. All three volumes were hugely popular and Rotten Reviews spent some time on a national bestseller list. Now these hundreds of scathing comments are collected in one edition that will delight readers and offer solace to writers who have endured similar reviews and rejections." "For example: Jane Austen was reviewed as a "husband-hunting butterfly." John Barth's early fiction was called "a real recoil." Alice in Wonderland was greeted with "a stiff overwrought story." Reviews of Moby-Dick cited Melville for "tragic-comic bubble and squeak." Classic rejection slips were delivered to John Le Carré's The Spy That Came In from the Cold: "You're welcome to Le Carré he hasn't got any future," and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita: "I recommend that it be buried under a stone for a thousand years," plus many more." -- Book Cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1998.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Distributed by Norton, Pushcart Press
Place of Publication:Wainscott, N.Y
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1998.

Notes

"Three highly acclaimed volumes are gathered together for the first time with several new nasty reviews and ridiculous rejections of great authors and classic books"--Page 4 of cover

The Physical Object

Description:269 pages : : illustrations ; : 18 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1888889047, 9781888889048
oclc:ocm39082974
LC Classification:Z1035.A1
Dewey Decimal:028.1

Rotten reviews -- Rotten reviews II -- Rotten rejections.

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Best books Book reviews Books Books -- Reviews Books and reading Comptes rendus Literature, Modern Literature, Modern -- Book reviews. -- … Littérature -- Recensions de livres. --… Livres -- Recensions Livres et lecture Meilleurs ouvrages reviews reviews (documents)