De Vries, Peter 1910-1993

Consenting adults : or, The duchess will be furious : a novel by Peter De Vries( Book )

14 editions published between 1980 and 1981 in English and Undetermined and held by 881 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is the saga of a randy young man (Ted Beacham) and his various romantic pursuits, including a four-way with the effervescent Peppermint Sisters (triplets). --W. David English at Amazon.com

Mrs. Wallop by Peter De Vries( Book )

16 editions published between 1970 and 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 822 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The cat's pajamas & Witch's milk; two novels by Peter De Vries( Book )

9 editions published between 1968 and 2014 in English and held by 811 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Twin tales of middle-class hilarity and despair from the writer who was dubbed?America's preeminent comic novelist? by the New York Times When college professor Hank Tattersall sees his former flame, Lucy Stiles, at a campus concert, it sets off a chain reaction that results in one of the funniest and most unforgettable exit scenes in American literature--involving a locked door, an alcoholic dog, and a punning doppelgänger. The Cat's Pajamas is the story of how Tattersall, a scrupulous self-reflector, falls from point A to point Z, rushing through a host of identities and indignities along the way. The unexamined life may not be worth living, he discovers, but the examined one is hardly a bed of roses. In Witch's Milk, Tillie Seltzer has her own trials to attend to. Chief among them is her marriage to Pete, the kind of guy who tucks a cigarette behind his ear and calls everybody Frisbee. When they first met, Tillie had more sophisticated tastes--dark strangers, homburg hats--but she was also a thirtysomething virgin whose prospects weren't getting any better. When she cracked a joke about the honeymoon being over, Pete believed her. Now stuck in suburbia with a sick child and a philandering husband, Tillie takes a hard look in the rearview mirror. Her search for an escape route will lead her to the most unexpected place of all. These short novels are linked by Tillie's cameo appearance in Hank's narrative and by the thrilling blend of satire, tragedy, and philosophy that defines the one-of-a-kind fiction of Peter De Vries

Madder music by Peter De Vries( Book )

17 editions published between 1977 and 1982 in English and Undetermined and held by 789 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Middle-aged, middle-class writer Bob Swirling copes with his puritanical upbringing, his repressed emotions and hostilities, his lack of self-confidence, and his imagined terminal illness by retreating into the identity of Groucho Marx

Sauce for the goose by Peter De Vries( Book )

11 editions published between 1981 and 1982 in English and held by 787 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Daisy Dobbin sets out to study sexual harassment in business offices, and she and her sister conspirator Effie both fall in love with the same man

Comfort me with apples by Peter De Vries( Book )

25 editions published between 1952 and 2014 in English and held by 774 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Farcical novel of love and marriage in the suburbs. It's all good fun

Forever panting by Peter De Vries( Book )

16 editions published between 1973 and 1982 in English and Undetermined and held by 732 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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Into your tent I'll creep by Peter De Vries( Book )

13 editions published between 1971 and 1980 in 3 languages and held by 732 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Consider the unlikely marriage of Al Banghart and his old high school teacher, Miss Rose Piano. Their wedding contract has Al putting on an apron to share gossip and his body with the neighborhood wives, while his wife goes off to work. No slouch herself, Rose is also broadening her sexual horizons with Shorty Hopwell, the bell-bottomed minister of a church where sob-ins replace funerals and divorce is a holy sacrament

I hear America swinging by Peter De Vries( Book )

18 editions published between 1974 and 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 724 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Be whisked out along Iowa backroads to see the sexual revolution in full sway in what only yesterday was called the Bible Belt, with a marriage counselor named Bill Bumpers at the wheel, driving with the top down and the accelerator floored. Uncertain whether he is saving the institution of marriage or officiating at tis demise, Dr. Bumpers nurses a rural union into a ménage à trois, and into a sort of updated Brook Farm commune

The prick of noon by Peter De Vries( Book )

10 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and held by 717 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

What's it like to be a stud, or hunk, wanted by both women and the law? Such is the quandary of Eddie Teeters after producing and performing in a series of sex-counseling movie shorts aimed at schooling television viewers in the art of love. He considers them educational erotica but a federal prosecutor regards them as actionable pornography