A PASSPORT SECRETLY GREEN

by Noel Perrin ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 13, 1960

A miscellany of casual conversation pieces have presumably had a partial magazine appearance (Harper's Bazaar, for one) and they are largely literary in their appeal- many referring to some eccentric, amusing items of special research. These include a piece on early American book titles, on Victorian multiples, on the poetic interpretations of the nightingale's song, on American slang, and his own Aspern Papers parallel when, while a research student at Cambridge, he discovered a senior tutor's cache of James' letters to an aunt. Ranging farther afield, there's an appraisal of the Borscht circuit advertising of cantors; of a terrifying skiing bit in Switzerland; of his participation in a pigeon-kicking club while at Columbia; of the courtship of a cousin Susan- on a motorcycle; etc., etc. Small talk which is pleasant- but still hard to designate as more than incidental reading.

Pub Date: March 13, 1960

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1960

Categories: NONFICTION