Background
Vries, Peter De was born on February 27, 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Joost and Henrietta (Eldersveld) De Vries.
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Vale of Laughter
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The Tunnel Of Love Theatre Programme
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The Glory of the Hummingbird
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Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon. His 16th book about an Indiana boy who hungers to be courted by the beautiful people.
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The Tents of Wickedness
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The outrageously funny story of a free-spirited girl who courts experience and a man-about-town who agrees to become an unwed father
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The Prick of Noon
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Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
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Slouching Towards Kalamazoo (Phoenix Fiction) Paperback - June 1, 2005
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Slouching Towards Kalamazoo (Phoenix Fiction) by De Vries Peter (2005-06-01) Paperback
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Sauce for the Goose
(Daisy Dobbin is an undercover feminist out to study sexua...)
Daisy Dobbin is an undercover feminist out to study sexual harassment in business offices, particularly that of Metropole magazine. To research it, of course, she must attract it - and thereby hangs the tale. The irony of her falling in love with the boss is serendipity enough without a resulting down-to-the-wire rivalry with a sister conspirator, her old girlhood chum Effie Sniffen. This the war between men and women becomes thematically interlocked with the competition among women for men, a double motif effected with all the comic subtlety we have come to expect from De Vries.
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The Tunnel of Love: A Comedy in Three Acts. Based on the novel by Peter de Vries.
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I Hear America Swinging
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First Edition Peter DeVries : I Hear America Swinging". Very funny, Midwestern humor. Satirical Comedy. One of the Funniest writers in his time.
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The Tents of Wickedness
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London published Fiction
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Comfort Me with Apples
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In this famous, bestselling novel Peter De Vries focuses in upon a man and a woman facing love in all its forms and furies -- from the rites of adolescent initiation to the early days of wedded bliss and the lengthening shadow of discontent and discord to the treacheries and traps of illicit passion. Prepare for a golden harvest of razor-sharp wit and deeply probing human insight.
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THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB 1st
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Slouching Towards Kalamazoo Slouching Towards Kalamazoo Slouching Towards Kalamazoo: A Novel a Novel a Novel SLOUCHING TOWARDS KALAMAZOO SL Paperback
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Consenting Adults: Or the Duchess Will be Furious
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London published Fiction
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THE VALE OF LAUGHTER 1st
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Comfort Me With Apples
(Ruth Reichl's latest book - one that will delight her fan...)
Ruth Reichl's latest book - one that will delight her fans and convert those as yet uninitiated to her charming tales - the author brings to life her adventures in pursuit of good meals and good company. Picking up where Tender at the Bone leaves off, Comfort Me with Apples recounts Reichl's transformation from chef to food writer, a process that led her through restaurants from Bangkok to Paris to Los Angeles and brought lessons in life, love, and food.
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The Mackerel Plaza
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Comfort Me with Apples by Peter De Vries (30-May-1905) Paperback
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Comfort Me with Apples
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I Hear America Swinging
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London published Fiction
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Without a stitch in time;: A selection of the best humorous short pieces by Peter DeVries 1974 Hardcover
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5 1/4"x8" 328 page hardcover published by Victor Gollancz in 1974.
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Without a Stitch in Time
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Without A Stitch In Time A Selection Of The Best Humorous Short Pieces
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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The Blood Of The Lamb
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The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the 1950s through the loss of a brother, his faith, his wife, and finally his daughter-a tragedy drawn directly from De Vries's own life. Despite its foundation in misfortune, The Blood of the Lamb offers glimpses of the comic sensibility for which De Vries was famous. Engaging directly with the reader in a manner that buttresses the personal intimacy of the story, De Vries writes with a powerful blend of grief, love, wit, and fury.
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THROUGH THE FIELDS OF CLOVER First Edition 1st
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Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces by De Vries Peter (2014-11-17) Paperback
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The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel
( The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood o...)
The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the 1950s through the loss of a brother, his faith, his wife, and finally his daughter-a tragedy drawn directly from De Vries's own life. Despite its foundation in misfortune, The Blood of the Lamb offers glimpses of the comic sensibility for which De Vries was famous. Engaging directly with the reader in a manner that buttresses the personal intimacy of the story, De Vries writes with a powerful blend of grief, love, wit, and fury.
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"The tunnel of love",
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The Mackerel Plaza
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Dust jacket notes: "A man wants to take a second wife while the town is still busily commemorating his departed first - that is Andrew Mackerel's predicament in a nutshell. He is a clergyman, of so modern a stripe as to be found, on page one, complaining to the Zoning Board about a revivalist sign which is visible from his study window. He learns to his horror that the garish billboard has been erected by a member of his own congregation, and in memory of his own wife. Mackerel explains the inaptness of the gift to the simple-minded donor, who switches to another, a huge memorial plaza which 'keeps her memory green' on such a scale and for so long that our suitor is forced underground with his intended. For the sake of appearances, that is, of plain good taste, the lovers meet in dim bars and seedy hotels in the disreputable quarter of town. There is another woman in the case, the late celebrity's sister, who also helps keep the late Ida May's memory green - just as green as need be to box the would-be lovers in for a decisive war of nerves. The result is one of the most hilarious triangles in modern fiction."
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The tents of wickedness.
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The Mackerel Plaza.
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Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces
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Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbiathe school of John Updike and Cheeverthis work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. Without a Stitch in Time, a selection of forty-six articles and stories written for the New Yorker between 1943 and 1973, offers pun-filled autobiographical vignettes that reveal the source of De Vries’s nervous wit: the cognitive dissonance between his Calvinist upbringing in 1920s Chicago and the all-too-perfect postwar world. Noted as much for his verbal fluidity and wordplay as for his ability to see humor through pain, De Vries will delight both new readers and old in this uproarious modern masterpiece.
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Slouching Towards Kalamazoo (Phoenix Fiction)
( It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anth...)
It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but not enough time studying the War of 1812 or obtuse triangles. A tutor is hired, and this "modern Hester Prynne" offers Anthony lessons that ultimately free him from eighth grade and situate her on the cusp of the American sexual revolution. Anthony's restless adolescent voice is perfectly suited to De Vries's blend of erudite wit and silliness—not to mention his fascination with both language and female anatomy—and it propels Slouching Towards Kalamazoo through theological debates and quandaries both dermatological and ethical, while soaring on the De Vriesian hallmark of scrambling conventional wisdom for comic effect.
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The Tunnel of Love: A Novel
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Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbiathe school of John Updike and Cheeverthis work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. De Vries’s classic situation comedy The Tunnel of Love follows the interactions of a socially insecure, pun-loving family man, an officious lady caseworker from an adoption agency, and a chauvinist pigall suburban neighbors who know far too much about one another’s private lives in this goofy and gently hilarious tale of marital quibbles. Noted as much for his verbal fluidity and wordplay as for his ability to see humor through pain, De Vries will delight both new readers and old in this uproarious modern masterpiece.
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No But I Saw The Movie
(High Noon. All About Eve. The Fly. Blow-Up. The Heartbrea...)
High Noon. All About Eve. The Fly. Blow-Up. The Heartbreak Kid. The Jazz Singer. Guys and Dolls. Stagecoach. Don't Look Now. Psycho. Behind many of Hollywood's greatest movies are equally great short stories. No, But I Saw the Movie collects more than two dozen of the world's best films as they were originally written, such stories as: "Rear Window," Cornell Woolrich's tale of innocent voyeurism run mad -- which became a Hitchcock masterpiece; "The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke, the chilling science-fiction tale that was the basis for the smash film 2001: A Space Odyssey; "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, the romance Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert brought to life in It Happened One Night -- winner of an armful of Oscars. These outstanding stories represent many genres -- comedy, true crime, science fiction, romance, horror -- and each is timeless in its own right. For those who've spent hours in dark theaters enjoying the best films of our century, here is a collection of cinematic tales to delight film buffs and fiction aficionados alike.
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Souvenir Program. TUNNEL OF LOVE Fields/De Vries. Stars Paul Winchell. 1959
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Theater program for Tunnel of Love starring Paul Winchell (yes, of Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney fame).
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Reuben, Reuben: A Novel
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Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbiathe school of John Updike and Cheeverthis work from the great American humorist Peter De Vries looks with laughter upon its lawns, its cocktails, and its slightly unreal feeling of comfort. A manic epic, Reuben, Reuben is really three books in one, tied together by a 1950s suburban Connecticut setting and hyper-literate cast of characters. A corruptible chicken farmer fearful for the fate of his beloved town, a womanizing poet from Wales (Dylan Thomas in disguise), and a hapless British poet-cum-actor-and-agent all take turns as narrator, revealing different, even conflicting views. But alcoholism, sexism, small-mindedness, and calamity challenge the high spirits of De Vries’s well-read suburbanites. Noted as much for his verbal fluidity and wordplay as for his ability to see humor through pain, De Vries will delight both new readers and old in this uproarious modern masterpiece.
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By Peter De Vries Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces Paperback
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Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces by de Vries, Peter ( Author ) Paperback Nov- 2014 Paperback Nov- 19- 2014
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Through the Fields of Clover
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First edition bound in black cloth with pale blue spine lettering. Book is Fine in a Nearly Fine dj that has tiny rub marks at the spine tips but is otherwise Fine.
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No but I saw the movie
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The Vale of Laughter
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Dust jacket design by Tom Funk. His 10th book. The story of Joe Sandwich, a clown in all ways.
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- The Handsome Heart
- I hear America swinging (De Vries' sense of humor took great aim at social qu...)
- The Prick of Noon by Peter De Vries (1985-04-01)
- Without a Stitch in Time
- The Tunnel of Love (Comedy Joseph Fields and Peter de Vries, adapted from the...)
- Madder Music (London published Fiction)
- Let Me Count the Ways (London published Fiction)
- The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel by Peter De Vries (2005-06-01)
- The Tents Of Wickedness
- Let Me Count the Ways
- Without a Stitch in Time a Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces(Hardback) - 2015 Edition (This work has been selected by scholars as being cultural...)
Peter De De Vries
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Education
He was educated in Dutch Christian Reformed Church schools, graduating from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1931. He also studied at Northwestern University.
Career
He has been described by the philosopher Daniel Dennett as "probably the funniest writer on religion ever". He supported himself with a number of different jobs, including those of vending machine operator, toffee-apple salesman, radio actor in the 1930s, and editor for Poetry magazine from 1938 to 1944. Very little is known about his time in the military or with that secret organization, the predecessor to the CIA. He joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine at the insistence of James Thurber and worked there from 1944 to 1987, writing stories and touching up cartoon captions.
A prolific writer, De Vries wrote short stories, reviews, poetry, essays, a play, novellas, and twenty-three novels. Films made from De Vries's novels include The Tunnel of Love (1958), which also was a successful Broadway play. How Do I Love Thee? (1970, based on Let Me Count the Ways).
Pete 'n' Tillie (1972, based on Witch’s Milk). And Reuben, Reuben (1970), which also inspired a Broadway play, Spofford. Earlier, in 1952, De Vries also contributed to the writing of the Broadway revue New Faces of 1952.
Although he enjoyed success for five decades, all his novels were out of print by the time of his death. James Bratt describes De Vries as "a secular Jeremiah, a renegade CRC missionary to the smart set.".
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Comfort Me with Apples
(In this famous, bestselling novel Peter De Vries focuses ...)
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Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces
( Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American ...)
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The Tunnel of Love: A Novel
( Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American ...)
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Reuben, Reuben: A Novel
( Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American ...)
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By Peter De Vries Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces Paperback
(Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorou...)
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Comfort Me With Apples
(Ruth Reichl's latest book - one that will delight her fan...)
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The Mackerel Plaza
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Without a Stitch in Time a Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces(Hardback) - 2015 Edition
(This work has been selected by scholars as being cultural...)
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The Tents of Wickedness
(The outrageously funny story of a free-spirited girl who ...)
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Sauce for the Goose
(Daisy Dobbin is an undercover feminist out to study sexua...)
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Slouching Towards Kalamazoo (Phoenix Fiction)
( It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anth...)
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Souvenir Program. TUNNEL OF LOVE Fields/De Vries. Stars Paul Winchell. 1959
(Theater program for Tunnel of Love starring Paul Winchell...)
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The Blood Of The Lamb
(The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of ...)
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The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel
( The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood o...)
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The Tunnel of Love
( Comedy Joseph Fields and Peter de Vries, adapted from...)
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Without a stitch in time;: A selection of the best humorous short pieces by Peter DeVries 1974 Hardcover
(5 1/4"x8" 328 page hardcover published by Victor Gollancz...)
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Through the Fields of Clover
(First edition bound in black cloth with pale blue spine l...)
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I hear America swinging
(De Vries' sense of humor took great aim at social quirks.)
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I Hear America Swinging
(First Edition Peter DeVries : I Hear America Swinging". V...)
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Without A Stitch In Time A Selection Of The Best Humorous Short Pieces
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
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The Glory of the Hummingbird
(Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon. His 16th book about an ...)
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The Vale of Laughter
(Dust jacket design by Tom Funk. His 10th book. The story ...)
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The Tents of Wickedness
(London published Fiction)
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Madder Music
(London published Fiction)
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Consenting Adults: Or the Duchess Will be Furious
(London published Fiction)
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Let Me Count the Ways
(London published Fiction)
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I Hear America Swinging
(London published Fiction)
- No but I saw the movie
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No But I Saw The Movie
(High Noon. All About Eve. The Fly. Blow-Up. The Heartbrea...)
- The Handsome Heart
- Vale of Laughter
- The Tunnel Of Love Theatre Programme
- The Prick of Noon
- Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
- Slouching Towards Kalamazoo (Phoenix Fiction) Paperback - June 1, 2005
- Slouching Towards Kalamazoo (Phoenix Fiction) by De Vries Peter (2005-06-01) Paperback
- The Prick of Noon by Peter De Vries (1985-04-01)
- The Tunnel of Love: A Comedy in Three Acts. Based on the novel by Peter de Vries.
- Without a Stitch in Time
- THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB 1st
- Slouching Towards Kalamazoo Slouching Towards Kalamazoo Slouching Towards Kalamazoo: A Novel a Novel a Novel SLOUCHING TOWARDS KALAMAZOO SL Paperback
- THE VALE OF LAUGHTER 1st
- The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel by Peter De Vries (2005-06-01)
- The Mackerel Plaza
- Comfort Me with Apples by Peter De Vries (30-May-1905) Paperback
- Comfort Me with Apples
- Without a Stitch in Time
- The Tents Of Wickedness
- THROUGH THE FIELDS OF CLOVER First Edition 1st
- Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces by De Vries Peter (2014-11-17) Paperback
- Let Me Count the Ways
- "The tunnel of love",
- The tents of wickedness.
- The Mackerel Plaza.
- By Peter De Vries - The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel
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Comfort Me with Apples
Membership
Member American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters.
Connections
Married Katinka Loeser, October 16, 1943. Children: Jan, Peter Jon, Emily, Derek.
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September 28, 1993 (aged 83)