The Middle-aged Man on the Flying Trapeze
Subtitled "A Collection of Short Pieces, Mainly Humourous But with a Few Kind of Sad Ones Mixed in with Drawings by the Author".
Darker in tone than "My Life and Hard Times", "The Middle-Aged Man" draws on Thurber's troubled marriage for material. The humor is ridden with pathos, and yet is quite sharp.
This collection has 36 stories including: "The Gentleman is Cold," "Everything is Wild," "Mr. Preble Gets Rid of His Wife," "Hell Only Breaks Loose Once," "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox," and "How to See a Bad Play."
The London Times said, "There may be greater humorists writing in America today than James Thurber, but none with quite his individual touch and his flavor."
- Author
- James Thurber
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780413561602
- Genres
- humor, essays, american, fiction
- Release date
- 1984
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