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  • Rally Round the Flag, Boys!

    A Novel

    by Max Shulman ...
    New York Times Bestseller : The US Army invades a small Connecticut town in this Cold War comedy classic.Harry Bannerman drinks his nightly bourbon on the train from New York City to Putnam's Landing, Connecticut. A typical commuter, he has a bald spot, a house, two mortgages, three children, and a wife who is a committed soccer mom and pillar of the community. Harry just wants to curl up on the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Barefoot Boy with Cheek

    A Novel

    by Max Shulman ...
    A wild and witty satire of American college life from the author of The Many Loves of Dobie GillisOn his first day of college, farm boy Asa Hearthrug enthusiastically jumps out of bed—and discovers that his pajama pants are caught in the bedsprings. He learns that his dog has died, and his father, in an effort to soften the blow, tells an absurd story about a female bullfighter. Next, the freshman ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

    Stories

    by Max Shulman ...
    Riotous tales of the college playboy-next-door —the basis for the iconic television show. "Shulman's creation was born a sitcom hero" (The A.V. Club).Including stories first published in Cosmopolitan and the Saturday Evening Post, this bestselling collection follows the romantic escapades of Max Shulman's famed collegiate Don Juan. Like most undergraduates, Dobie Gillis is a bit scattered ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Feather Merchants

    A Novel

    by Max Shulman ...
    The raucous and randy adventures of a stateside soldier during World War IISergeant Dan Miller wanted to be a flying ace, but the air force grounded him for poor vision. To make matters worse, when the myopic Miller travels home to Minneapolis on furlough, he finds the local "feather merchants"—aka civilians—breaking all the wartime rules. They're guzzling black-market gas, hoarding rationed food, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Potatoes Are Cheaper

    A Novel

    by Max Shulman ...
    A Jewish freshman searches for love and money at the University of Minnesota in this raucous satire from the author of The Many Loves of Dobie GillisIt's the middle of the Great Depression and Morris Katz and his cousin Albert are broke. The self-declared "best humpers in St. Paul," they haven't quite figured out how to make their talents pay. But that's all about to change when they head off to ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anyone Got a Match?

    A Novel

    by Max Shulman ...
    Big tobacco meets the boob tube in this incendiary satire from the bestselling author of The Many Loves of Dobie GillisJefferson Tatum is a self-made man. Founder of Tatum Cigarette Company, he wrote the brand's advertising jingle—"Tatums smoke mild like an innocent child"—and has been bringing home big money—and hunting huge bears—ever since. But this year his tobacco sales are down 3 percent ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sleep till Noon

    A Novel

    by Max Shulman ...
    A rags-to-riches tale so outrageously hysterical it could have only come from the marvelous mind of Max Shulman, bestselling author of The Many Loves of Dobie GillisA sensitive boy growing up in a bad neighborhood, Harry Riddle doesn't fit in with the kids who hold up gas stations, steal purses, and drop safes on policemen. He prefers to contemplate the American dream and his father's advice for ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The American Pipe Dream

    Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890-1940

    by Max Shulman ...
    Series series Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
    The American Pipe Dream examines the many iterations of addiction as it was performed over the first half of the twentieth century, working from a massive archive of previously ignored material. Because the stage-addict became the primary way the U.S. public learned about addiction and drug use, Shulman argues that performance was essential in creating the addict in America’s cultural imagination. ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • I Was a Teenage Dwarf

    Stories

    by Max Shulman ...
    This hysterical follow-up to The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis details the lifelong pursuits of the pint-sized Don JuanEach chapter—straight from the diaries of Dobie Gillis—is a true experience from our hero's life between the ages of thirteen to thirty. All the experiences are about girls, because that's what Dobie's life is about: girls.In "Girls: Their Cause and Cure," Dobie is a sixth-grader ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Zebra Derby

    A Novel

    by Max Shulman ...
    Home from the war, a veteran finds that his battles have only just begun in this zany and irreverent satire from the author of Rally Round the Flag, Boys!Last seen gallivanting on a college campus in Barefoot Boy with Cheek, Asa Hearthrug traded in his varsity jacket for khaki and fought his way across the Pacific. Now he's back in his hometown of Whistlestop, Minnesota, eager to share his war ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Barefoot Boy with Cheek

    by Max Shulman ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 46 min

    On his first day of college, farm boy Asa Hearthrug enthusiastically jumps out of bed-and discovers that his pajama pants are caught in the bedsprings. He learns that his dog has died, and his father, in an effort to soften the blow, tells an absurd story about a female bullfighter. Next, the freshman pays a visit to his high school sweetheart to say a heartfelt goodbye, but Lodestone La Toole is ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

    by Max Shulman ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 19 min

    Including stories first published in Cosmopolitan and theSaturday Evening Post, this bestselling collection follows the romantic escapades of Max Shulman's famed collegiate Don Juan. Like most undergraduates, Dobie Gillis is a bit scattered-sometimes he's as quick as a whip, other times dull as a doorstop, and his major keeps changing from chemistry to law to journalism. But no matter what subject ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD