"Without A Stitch in Time "is a collection of articles written for "The New Yorker" gently satirical stories about Peter s childhood in Chicago, his various jobs, the move East to new York, and family life in suburbia and beyond. The stories date from 1943 to 1873 and give readers a sense of where De Vries strangely nervous wit comes from: verbal sparks from the cognitive dissonance between his strict and abstemious Calvinist upbringing in the 1920s and the world of 1950s "Mad Men "suburbia."
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"Without A Stitch in Time "is a collection of articles written for "The New Yorker" gently satirical stories about Peter s childhood in Chicago, his various jobs, the move East to new York, and family life in suburbia and beyond. The stories date from 1943 to 1873 and give readers a sense of where De Vries strangely nervous wit comes from: verbal sparks from the cognitive dissonance between his strict and abstemious Calvinist upbringing in the 1920s and the world of 1950s "Mad Men "suburbia."
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