{"product_id":"crazy-like-a-fox","title":"Crazy Like a Fox - The Classic Comedy Collection","description":"\u003cb\u003eA beloved classic returns: S. J. Perelman's own selection of the very best of his hilarious stories and sketches\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePulitzer Prize–winning author Joshua Cohen (\u003ci\u003eThe Netanyahus\u003c\/i\u003e) reintroduces America's zaniest humorist to a new generation of readers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen asked about himself the writer Sidney Joseph Perelman once quipped, \"before they made him, they broke the mold.\" Nowhere is S. J. Perelman's one-of-a-kind, madcap sensibility—his gift for wordplay, witticism, spoofery, and sheer nonsense—on better display than in his classic collection \u003ci\u003eCrazy Like a Fox\u003c\/i\u003e, here restored to print for the first time in decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a playful, loving tribute to the funny man, novelist Joshua Cohen—also an erudite wordsmith and punster—introduces Perelman’s sui generis comic pieces to a new generation of readers, certain to fall in love with the writer whom \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e once noted for his ability “to transform the common cliché or figure of speech into an exploding cigar.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluded here are such beloved classics as:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe Joycean virtuoso performance “Scenario”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“A Farewell to Omsk,” Perelman's hilarious homage to Dostoevsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eand “Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer,\" his side-splitting send-up of the hardboiled detective fiction of Raymond Chandler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is Perelman's own selection of the very best of his inimitable humor, restored to print for the first time in decades.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50951625146656,"sku":"9781598537789","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781598537789.jpg?v=1763641333","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/crazy-like-a-fox","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}