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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Penguin USA
Publication date August 1, 1989
Binding Paperback
Edition Reissue
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780140096934
ISBN-10 0140096930
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $11.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Offers a blend of stories, anecdotes, political history, and autobiography to create variations on several themes, including the power of laughter and the danger of forgetting
Editions
Paperback
Book cover for 9780060926083 Book cover for 9780060932145 Book cover for 9780060997014 Book cover for 9780140096934 Book cover for 9780571203871
 
from Faber & Faber Ltd (March 1, 2001); titled "Book of Laughter and Forgetting"
9780571203871 | details & prices | List price $22.01
With Aaron Asher | Reprint edition from Harpercollins (April 1, 1999)
9780060932145 | details & prices | 312 pages | 5.75 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $14.99
About: The absurdities of modern life are dramatized by a student who forsakes physical love for a conversation with poets about it and a former Czech Communist leader who is officially eliminated from history
With National Gallery of Art (other contributor), Aaron Asher, Nicolai Cikovsky (other contributor) | from Harpercollins (May 1, 1996)
9780060926083 | details & prices | 312 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $13.50
This edition also contains American Impressionism and Realism: The Margaret and Raymond Horowitz Collection
About: The absurdities of modern life are dramatized by a student who forsakes physical love for a conversation with poets about it, a former Czech Communist leader who is officially eliminated from history, and others
With Michael Henry Heim (other contributor), Travell | Reprint edition from Perennial (January 1, 1994)
9780060997014 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $12.50
This edition also contains Trigger Point of Pain: Wall Charts
About: A vivid mix of fictional autobiography and myth examines the human condition through five uniquely integrated parts, humorously and movingly depicting the political, erotic, and intellectual facets of modern life.
The price comparison is for this edition
With Michael Henry Heim (other contributor) | Reissue edition from Penguin USA (August 1, 1989)
9780140096934 | details & prices | List price $11.00
About: Offers a blend of stories, anecdotes, political history, and autobiography to create variations on several themes, including the power of laughter and the danger of forgetting

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