Take It or Leave It / Raymond Federman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Federman, Raymond.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Draftees--United States--Fiction.

Draftees.

French--United States--Fiction.

French.

Genre:

Humorous fiction.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : FC2, 1976.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As told, or rather retold second-hand, by the narrator, Take It or Leave It relates the hilarious and amorous adventures of a young Frenchman who has been drafted into the U.S. Army and is being shipped Overseas to fight in Korea. The obsessed narrator retells, as best as he can, what the young man supposedly told him as they sat under a tree. He recounts how the young man escaped German persecution during World War Two, how he came to America and struggled to survive before joining the ""rah rah spitshine"" 82nd Airborne Division, and how, because of a ""typical Army goof,"" he mu

Contents:

Title Subtitle; Summary of the Recitation; Introduction; Dedication; Quotations in the Form of a Preambule; Pretext: A Spatial Displacement of Words; 0. Suppositions & Prelibations; 1. Setting & Tripping; 2. The Masturbatory Gesture; 3. Exploration; 4. Frogliness; 5. Cyrano of the Regiment; 6. Exhilaration; 7. Interruptions & Vociferations; 8. Superman & Real Life; 9. A False Start; 10. A Typical Error; 11. A Good Start; 12. Remembering Charlie Parker or How to Get It Out of Your System; 13. Anticipating the Worse; 14. Laughter & Literature

15. New York Summer Camps Politics & Slogans Questionnaire16. By-Pass & Interference; 17. A Visitor from Above; 18. Replacement & Displacement; 19. Dashing from One Parenthesis to Another; 20. A Night to Remember; 21. Critifiction: Crap Lie or Die; 22. The Buickspecial; 23. Crucifiction & Cancellation

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-57366-837-0

OCLC:

899266228