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Barefoot Boy with Cheek A Novel edition by Max Shulman Literature Fiction eBooks

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A wild and witty satire of American college life from the author of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

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 more interested in hamburgers than vows of devotion. And when Asa finally arrives at the University of Minnesota—wham!—he gets run over by a frat boy’s convertible.
 
Max Shulman’s bestselling debut novel, written when he was almost as fresh-faced as his protagonist, delightfully skewers every sacred cow of collegiate life. From the faculty expert on “Merrie Olde England” who once spent two weeks on that distant land to the sidewalk booby-trap used by the Alpha Cholera fraternity to round-up reluctant pledges, Barefoot Boy with Cheek bursts at the seams with outrageous characters, delirious set pieces, and gut-busting one-liners.

Barefoot Boy with Cheek A Novel edition by Max Shulman Literature Fiction eBooks

I started this slim volume on my birthday as a sort of celebration and gift to me. Over 50 years ago, I moved to a new town (7,000) from a larger city (70,000). I was barely literate, and the kids in my new school were frightingly literate! I was so fearful they would catch on the first time I had to read in class. The summer before I started in the 10th grade, I took this little volume, went into the woods across the street from my house, and I read it out loud to the trees. It is an extraordinary volume with references to recent and far distant past. Many of the references were a play on words. I assumed the "Plays" were real names and real events. Some I couldn't pronounce. I do remember, however, I made it through, and caught the gist of the story line, and I remembered the book. An interesting end to this barefoot boy with cheeks of tan, I ended up being a teen radio jockey for the only radio station in town. I introduced church acts on Sunday morning, and from noon until 1:00, I hosted "The Lee Whitlock Show." "I hope you hear something you like or like something you hear."

Fifty plus years later, I found an old, tattered copy of the wonderful book and reread it. It was delightful. I got the puns, the play on words, and the wonderfully cute love story of another barefoot boy. His path toward love was awkwardly similar to mine. I also discovered the wonderful Max Shulman somewhere in those 5 decades. My favorite of his plays is "The Tender Trap." Shulman launched me into becoming a lifelong reader.

Product details File Size 5204 KB Print Length 207 pages Publisher Open Road Media (January 19, 2016) Publication Date January 19, 2016 Sold by  Digital Services LLC Language English ASIN B018V77JX4

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I first read this book at around age 12 and, I now understand, didn't get all the jokes. Reading it some 58 years later, I do get the jokes, all of them (I hope). Max Shulman was a comic genius and, for me, this is his best.
I read this book as a freshman in college decades ago, 1962, and felt like reading it again. it's wonderful. I got even more out of it the 2nd time period
Outlandish college humor as only Shulman can write it. I originally read this 40 years ago. I just read it again. It seems even funnier today.
This is a satirical look at college life in the early 1940s, written in 1943 by Max Shulman, a popular humorist from that era. The story's narrator and protagonist is Asa Hearthrug, an appealingly naïve country bumpkin who is off to his freshman year at the University of Minnesota, which Shulman - in one of the book's funniest passages - identifies as a "wholly imaginary" institution in the book's foreword. From there the book progresses as a kind of comedy of errors, all of which serve to introduce characters with improbable names that were undoubtedly funny and/or subversive at the time (Noblesse Oblige, Shylock Fiscal, Eino Ffliikkiinnenn), and situations that almost certainly reflected the cultural mileposts of the era.

Satire (as opposed to straight comedy) almost never ages well, because it depends so heavily on the current events it strives to skewer. As a result contemporary readers generally miss the nuances of narration and dialogue meant to reflect events and speech patterns of the time. That is definitely the case with this book, which is naturally heavy with slang, phraseology and pop culture references that lost their relevance long ago. Having said that, Max Shulman was clearly a gifted comic writer, and with this book he left us with some brilliant and timeless humor. While I've read a lot of supposedly humorous literature, the only material that really resonates and stays with me are the books that create truly memorable characters (think "Confederacy of Dunces" and "Tomcat In Love") or whose wordplay can charm and challenge me while making me laugh out loud (think "Catch 22" and "The Sot-Weed Factor"). I would put this book into the latter category, though by no means on the same literary scale.

I read this book at the suggestion of a friend who actually went to college in this era. While it's out of print and hard to find, this book strikes me as an amusing period piece, a snapshot in time with a handful of themes that might still be relevant today, told with some delightful turns of phrase. More than anything, it gave me some insights into the sense of humor the prevailed at that time, and which many of that dwindling generation still possess.
I grew up on Shulman's books...kind've. My father and his brothers read all of them and would recite lines to each other and howl with laughter. I later grew up with The Many Loves of Dobbie Gillis on TV and the movie Rally Round the Flag Boys with Paul Newman. When I was able to obtain this classic 50s novel of a boy going to the U of Minnesota. I could relive my family legacy. Max is a great 50's humorist and it's a great pleasure to laugh along with my father again!
To tell you the truth, there is no making any sense of this story or its characters, but it really doesn't matter -- just read this coming-of-age story straight on through, but make sure you hold onto something so you don't fall out of your chair laughing and hurt yourself.
I read this book about seventy-one years ago while I was in a Navy hospital and nearly died laughing, Subsequently I listed it along with two other books on a college application as one of the 'three books that had read in the previous year'. I was accepted in Case Western (then Case School of Applied Science). I guess that they had a good sense of humor. I recently reread the book, and again almost died laughing.. My sense of humor apparently has not changed- or improved. As Kurt Vonnegut said, 'So it goes".
I started this slim volume on my birthday as a sort of celebration and gift to me. Over 50 years ago, I moved to a new town (7,000) from a larger city (70,000). I was barely literate, and the kids in my new school were frightingly literate! I was so fearful they would catch on the first time I had to read in class. The summer before I started in the 10th grade, I took this little volume, went into the woods across the street from my house, and I read it out loud to the trees. It is an extraordinary volume with references to recent and far distant past. Many of the references were a play on words. I assumed the "Plays" were real names and real events. Some I couldn't pronounce. I do remember, however, I made it through, and caught the gist of the story line, and I remembered the book. An interesting end to this barefoot boy with cheeks of tan, I ended up being a teen radio jockey for the only radio station in town. I introduced church acts on Sunday morning, and from noon until 100, I hosted "The Lee Whitlock Show." "I hope you hear something you like or like something you hear."

Fifty plus years later, I found an old, tattered copy of the wonderful book and reread it. It was delightful. I got the puns, the play on words, and the wonderfully cute love story of another barefoot boy. His path toward love was awkwardly similar to mine. I also discovered the wonderful Max Shulman somewhere in those 5 decades. My favorite of his plays is "The Tender Trap." Shulman launched me into becoming a lifelong reader.