The Tunnel of Love
Author | : Peter De Vries |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014-11-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780226173474 |
ISBN-13 | : 022617347X |
Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "The Tunnel of Love "is a goofy situation comedy involving suburban neighbors who know too much about each other s private lives. The narrator is an upstanding commuting family man who, faced with awkward situations, plays sick, has small fits of rage, or babbles something inappropriate and/or witty. Like the author, he works on cartoons published in a New York magazine, and uses humor to deal with stress. The plot includes an officious lady employed by an adoption agency, and the confused identities of babies. A pointed satire of suburban life, it is also a retro, lively romp, and more cheerful than some of the De Vries s later novels set in this world. "