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PUBLISHED WORKS
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Michael Thunder's first published work,Call Me Manneschewitz,was
written under the name Thomas McMenamin. This novel was published
by Charles Scribner's Sons,New York. |
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It is a delight that
every reader will share, for CALL ME MANNESCHWITZ is one of the funniest
and most captivating books of the year. It is a joyful book |
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James Parnell
O'Shanahan and Sarah Riecher meet at a party in Iowa City. Jim
O'Shanahan is long-haired, stringy and energetic and he feels an
obligation to make girls happy. All of them. But in Sarah he finds
a special girl. They live together, and then they decide to get
married.
This means a visit to Sarah's well-to-do parents in Akron, Ohio, where
Jim is received warmly by Leonard Riecher and with deep suspicion by
Minnie, who has a score system for rating her aggravations. She
drags in the Rabbi at 3 A.M. to explain why the marriage would be a
mistake; but that doesn't work. Finally, Minnie capitulates.
In spite of herself, she gets fond of Jim and takes to calling him Manneschewitz. She plunges into frenzied arrangements for a big wedding.
As these preparations go forward, Jim and Sarah continue their exuberant
delight with each other. |
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Michael Thunder, who has also written
under the name Thomas McMenamin, was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1945.
He attended several universities and worked at a variety of jobs,
including that of a Safety Deposit Vault attendant, and he received an
MFA from the University of Iowa in 1969.
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