Lennie Lower (1903–1947)
Autore di Here's Luck
Opere di Lennie Lower
Opere correlate
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Lower, Leonard Waldemere
- Data di nascita
- 1903-09-24
- Data di morte
- 1947-07-10
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia
- Luogo di morte
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Attività lavorative
- humourist
journalist
swagman
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 84
- Popolarità
- #216,911
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 19
Freaking hilarious. Here's Luck was a complete sensation when it was published in Australia in 1930, and propelled Lennie Lower to a decade of ceaseless comedy writing in books and newspaper columns.
This is a darn funny series of sketches, really, hung around the loose plot of a father and son pair who are generally no good, gambling, drinking, and verbally abusing the women around them. Lower's descriptions are David Sedaris-level amusing.
I'm always worried, reading these kind of books, at how the women will be portrayed. Not that we can do much about the general sidelining of wives and mothers in this era (and the invisibility of all other women aside from the coquette) but sometimes it becomes too much. Thankfully, as the quote above shows, the women here are able to return fire just as strongly. Lower is aware of the lunacy and mental poverty of his men even as he deifies them.… (altro)