Stet Damnit!/Deja Reviews Deal
$34.95
Want proof that great writing is timeless? Look no further than our two acclaimed Florence King collections— STET, Damnit! and Deja Reviews. Now, as part of National Review’s got-to-clear-out-the-stockroom “Moving Sale,” you can get these two curmudgeonly companions for only $34.95 — a big $20 savings off the combined retail cost.
STET, Damnit!: The Misanthrope’s Corner, 1991 to 2002 is the complete, unabridged collection of Florence King’s beloved “Misanthrope’s Corner” columns, letting you relive and relish the unsurpassed prose of one of America’s most heralded writers. Word for word, no one punches with the force of Miss King’s clock-cleaning verbiage! During her NR tenure, no one but no one better derided dunderheads, disemboweled sacred cows, trashed trends, and lampooned the lame-brained than The Queen of Mean. For over a decade her wise words were the proverbial two-by-four that smacked upside the thick and dense heads of busybodies, chin-droolers, feel-gooders, store-greeters, plagiarists, teddy-bear memorializers, whiners, wanna-be victims, crisis-counseling apostles, and many more of society’s more annoying types. Fifteen years later, a decade since, no matter how dated the topic of her column, readers of this hearty collection will find that Florence King’s sharp, crafted prose still dazzles and endures — each piece is as fresh as a slap in the face, as biting as an angry asp, and as funny as all heck!
This handsome hardcover edition of < i>STET, Damnit! contains 524 pages of 200-proof pure-grain Florence, distilling every word (including the typos we let slip through in the originals!) that the Mother of All Curmudgeons wrote for her revered NR column. Her masterpieces still resound, reverberate, and dazzle. Her unorthodox and unexpected take on a sweeping array of subjects — politics, fads, court rulings, murderesses, scandals, recounts, you name it — remains crisp, fresh, insightful, intelligent, engaging, and always entertaining. The prose still snaps — and the terrible swift pen still slashes.
You’ll find that’s exactly the case with Deja Reviews: Florence King All Over Again —the handsome 360-page hardcover collection of each and every one of the glorious essays and unrivalled book reviews Miss King penned for National Review and The American Spectator up until her (now happily revoked!) retirement in 2002.
A must for any fan, Deja Reviews includes classic essays such as “A Wasp Looks at Lizzie Borden” and “South Mouth: Why Liberals Hate Dixie” — plus 59 book reviews, the milieu where Miss King’s talents are on their most glorious display. Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Greenberg said it best in his insightful introduction: “my favorite part of this collection may be the book reviews. Florence King’s specialty is the good review of a bad book. It would be hard, it might be impossible, to top this opening paragraph of one such review:
Boy, can she write! And as for asteroids, you’ll wish you’d been struck by one if you don’t take advantage of this special offer. Order your copies today of STET, Damnit! and Deja Reviews for only $34.95 .
STET, Damnit!: The Misanthrope’s Corner, 1991 to 2002 is the complete, unabridged collection of Florence King’s beloved “Misanthrope’s Corner” columns, letting you relive and relish the unsurpassed prose of one of America’s most heralded writers. Word for word, no one punches with the force of Miss King’s clock-cleaning verbiage! During her NR tenure, no one but no one better derided dunderheads, disemboweled sacred cows, trashed trends, and lampooned the lame-brained than The Queen of Mean. For over a decade her wise words were the proverbial two-by-four that smacked upside the thick and dense heads of busybodies, chin-droolers, feel-gooders, store-greeters, plagiarists, teddy-bear memorializers, whiners, wanna-be victims, crisis-counseling apostles, and many more of society’s more annoying types. Fifteen years later, a decade since, no matter how dated the topic of her column, readers of this hearty collection will find that Florence King’s sharp, crafted prose still dazzles and endures — each piece is as fresh as a slap in the face, as biting as an angry asp, and as funny as all heck!
This handsome hardcover edition of < i>STET, Damnit! contains 524 pages of 200-proof pure-grain Florence, distilling every word (including the typos we let slip through in the originals!) that the Mother of All Curmudgeons wrote for her revered NR column. Her masterpieces still resound, reverberate, and dazzle. Her unorthodox and unexpected take on a sweeping array of subjects — politics, fads, court rulings, murderesses, scandals, recounts, you name it — remains crisp, fresh, insightful, intelligent, engaging, and always entertaining. The prose still snaps — and the terrible swift pen still slashes.
You’ll find that’s exactly the case with Deja Reviews: Florence King All Over Again —the handsome 360-page hardcover collection of each and every one of the glorious essays and unrivalled book reviews Miss King penned for National Review and The American Spectator up until her (now happily revoked!) retirement in 2002.
A must for any fan, Deja Reviews includes classic essays such as “A Wasp Looks at Lizzie Borden” and “South Mouth: Why Liberals Hate Dixie” — plus 59 book reviews, the milieu where Miss King’s talents are on their most glorious display. Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Greenberg said it best in his insightful introduction: “my favorite part of this collection may be the book reviews. Florence King’s specialty is the good review of a bad book. It would be hard, it might be impossible, to top this opening paragraph of one such review:
Back in the Cold War, whenever I had to review an unreadable book, I always comforted myself with the thought, ‘Maybe the Russians will drop the Bomb and I won’t have to finish reading this.’ Those were the days. This time, stuck with A Pilgrim’s Way: The Personal Story of the Episcopal Bishop Charged with Heresy for Ordaining a Gay Man Who Was in a Committed Relationship, by the Rt. Rev. Walter C. Righter, author of the longest subtitle in publishing history, all I could hope for was an asteroid.
Boy, can she write! And as for asteroids, you’ll wish you’d been struck by one if you don’t take advantage of this special offer. Order your copies today of STET, Damnit! and Deja Reviews for only $34.95 .