Het lam
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789460050039 (9460050034)
Publish date: September 2008
Publisher: Brandaan
Pages no: 224
Edition language: Dutch
Comedy is not always funny, and tragedy can have elements of humor. DeVries gives us the coming of age/middle age story of a man who endures multiple tragedies with humor, all the while struggling to extract himself from the fundamentalist religion of his childhood. I came across this book in a ba...
Peter DeVries was a very popular writer who contributed many stories to the New Yorker in the fifties and sixties and who wrote several very funny novels. This autobiographical novel describes the growth to maturity of Don Wanderhope, member of a strictly Calvinist Dutch Reform family, whose brother...