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The Short Fiction of Ring Lardner

by Ring Lardner

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Ring Lardner made his name writing about baseball, but the stories gathered here range far past the ballpark. He wrote in the flat, self-deceiving voice of ordinary Americans, salesmen, ballplayers, bridge partners, and let them expose their own vanity and small cruelties without a narrator stepping in to judge. Pieces such as "Haircut," "Champion," "Alibi Ike," and "The Golden Honeymoon" show his gift for the ear, with dialogue that sounds exactly like real speech while it quietly turns bitter. Beneath the comedy runs a cold streak that later writers, including Fitzgerald and Hemingway, admired and borrowed from. The collection is a fine introduction to one of the sharpest satirists of early twentieth-century America.

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Ring Lardner

Ring Lardner (1885-1933) was an American sportswriter, humorist, and short-story writer celebrated for his sharp ear for everyday speech. Beginning as a baseball reporter, he became one of the country's most admired satirists, influencing writers from Hemingway to Fitzgerald with his deadpan vernacular comedy.

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