Barbara Davilman, Ellis Weiner

Yiddish with George and Laura (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What do George and Laura Bush have in common with Dick and Jane? Well, both hail from prototypical WASP families. And, perhaps more to the point, both exhibit a natural resistance to moral complexity (i.e., reality).

That's the premise of this hilarious new primer-style book in which George, Laura, and the entire Bush family communicate with uncharacteristic expressiveness, conveying shades of of feeling and nuances of meaning that plain old English can't deliver -- by peppering their conversatuon with Yiddishisms.

See George's mother.

Her name is Bar.

She wears a lot of pearls and is a farbisseneh.

"You are late, George," Bar says.

"Of course I am late," George says.

"I am the President of the United States. I am a big macher."

Like all good primers, Yiddish with George and Laura tells a simple story -- and, in the end, important life lessons are imparted.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780316050203
• Artikelnr.: 39696619

Autorenporträt

Ellis Weiner is the only person, dead or alive, who has published in the National Lampoon (where he was an editor), Spy (where he wrote a column), and The New Yorker (where he still appears). He is co-author, with Barbara Davilman, of Yiddish With Dick and Jane, Yiddish With George and Laura, How to Raise a Jewish Dog, The Big Jewish Book for Jews, and other titles. He is founder and editor-in-chief of the Sherman Oaks Review of Books, a "channel" of the Los Angeles Review of Books, which debuted in 2016.

Barbara Davilman writes for television. They live in Los Angeles.