β Scribed by Peter de Vries
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Twin tales of middle-class hilarity and despair from the writer who was dubbed "America's preeminent comic novelist" by the New York Times
When college professor Hank Tattersall sees his former flame, Lucy Stiles, at a campus concert, it sets off a chain reaction that results in one of the funniest and most unforgettable exit scenes in American literatureβinvolving a locked door, an alcoholic dog, and a punning doppelgΓ€nger. The Cat's Pajamas is the story of how Tattersall, a scrupulous self-reflector, falls from point A to point Z, rushing through a host of identities and indignities along the way. The unexamined life may not be worth living, he discovers, but the examined one is hardly a bed of roses.
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