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Yiddish with Dick and Jane
Weiner, Ellis; Davilman, Barbara
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Description for Yiddish with Dick and Jane
Hardback. * An inspired parodic twist - the two least Jewish characters in American literature spout some of the edgy, ironic Yiddishisms that have become part of the American vernacular. Num Pages: 112 pages, Integrated: 35, watercolours. BIC Classification: 2ACY; CJBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 135 x 11. Weight in Grams: 202.
In text that captures the unique rhythms of the original Dick and Jane readers, and in 35 all-new illustrations, a story unfolds in which the ultra-WASPish Dick and Jane - hero and heroine of the classic books for children that generations have used when learning to read - manage to express shades of feeling and nuances of meaning that ordinary English just can't deliver. How? By speaking Yiddish, employing terms that convey an attitude - part plucky self-assertion, part ironic fatalism. When Dick schmoozes, when Jane kvetches, when their children fress noodles at a Chinese restaurant, the clash of cultures ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780316159722
SKU
V9780316159722
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Ref
99-15
About Weiner, Ellis; Davilman, Barbara
Ellis Weiner has been an editor of National Lampoon, a columnist for Spy, and a contributor to many magazines, including The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine. Barbara Davilman began her career in New York in advertising and now writes sitcoms in Los Angeles.
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