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BARNETT FRUMMER IS AN UNBLOOMED FLOWER, by Calvin Trillin. Soft implosions of mirthful satire that trouble the social and political pretensions of those who would be with...
BARNETT FRUMMER IS AN UNBLOOMED FLOWER, by Calvin Trillin. Soft implosions of mirthful satire that trouble the social and political pretensions of those who would be with...
BARNETT FRUMMER IS AN UNBLOOMED FLOWER by Calvin Trillin. 98 pages. Viking...
...Rosalie attends, "where whites gathered to be castigated by some prominent Negro." Says Barnett: "I can't understand it. I don't like to blow my own horn, but I do think I'm as guilty as anybody." As the anti-anti-anti-hero of Calvin Trillin's collection of short, softly hilarious, episodic New Yorkerish misadventures, Barnett jousts for Rosalie's attention in the culture jungle of the great city, raising a series of rumpled expectations all doomed to failure...
Ages from now, cultivated men will no doubt read Trillin to know the tongue and cheek of coffeehouse New York, much as we read Addison and Steele to know the preoccupations of coffeehouse London. Meanwhile, on Barnett, on! Overcope and Frummer us to death...