Fiction. "Paul Bunyan, Mike Fink, and Pecos Bill, move over. This collection of tall tales from the Adirondack Liars' Club presents a new, fresh view of American folklore. A delightful collection of tall tales, puns, and outrageous stories. Ward's introduction connects the social custom of telling lies in the Adirondack lumber camps with the older traditions of storytelling and bragging in cultures as old as ancient Greece and Rome. Highly entertaining in themselves, the techniques reflected in the stories include puns, ...
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Fiction. "Paul Bunyan, Mike Fink, and Pecos Bill, move over. This collection of tall tales from the Adirondack Liars' Club presents a new, fresh view of American folklore. A delightful collection of tall tales, puns, and outrageous stories. Ward's introduction connects the social custom of telling lies in the Adirondack lumber camps with the older traditions of storytelling and bragging in cultures as old as ancient Greece and Rome. Highly entertaining in themselves, the techniques reflected in the stories include puns, illogical sequences of events, outright lies, and tall tales on the order of Paul Bunyan. Recommended for folktale, anthropology, and history collections"-Booklist.
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Add this copy of I Always Tell the Truth (Even If I Have to Lie to Do It to cart. $5.43, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Bowman/Greenfield.
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Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 114 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Book Condition: Near fine. Clean inside pages with sharp corners. Tight binding. DJ Condition: no dj.
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Very Good. 51/2x9. 114 pages, w/drawings by Deborah Delaney. A collection of stories-tall tales, puns, outrageous stories-from the Adirondack lumber camps. Unmarked, tight and clean.
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Very Good. Size: 23 cm.; Unread store shelf copy with just a touch of wear to covers. "Bowman books #4"--T.p. verso.114 p. : ill.; 23 cm. 114 pages. Adirondack Liars' Club, Tall tales--New York (State)--Adirondack Mountains.
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