Fiction. "Paul Bunyan, Mike Fink, and Pecos Bill, move over. This collection of tall tales from the Adirondack Liars' Club presents a new, fresh view of American folklore. A delightful collection of tall tales, puns, and outrageous stories. Ward's introduction connects the social custom of telling lies in the Adirondack lumber camps with the older traditions of storytelling and bragging in cultures as old as ancient Greece and Rome. Highly entertaining in themselves, the techniques reflected in the stories include puns, illogical sequences of events, outright lies, and tall tales on the order of Paul Bunyan. Recommended for folktale, anthropology, and history collections"-Booklist.
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This review is from: I Always Tell the Truth (Even If I Have To Lie To Do It!): Stories from the Adirondack Liars' Club (Paperback)
This is a small and gentle book that can be enjoyed like a warm stew on a cold night. On the other hand, it's funny as all get-out.It's been sitting on my bookshelf for years, maybe decades (the copyright is 1990)! I just noticed it the other night and decided to read it at last. What a treasure had been "buried" in broad daylight. It's a selection of very short tales meant to be told around a woodstove by woodsmen and hunters -- each tale "taller" than the last. What's even better is that the actual tale-tellers are pictured and described by the editor, who is one herself, I gather, although not represented as such in this volume. In fact, to my surprise and ever-so-vague memory, several of their photographic portraits are autographed. I must have purchased this after attending an actual meeting of the Adirondack Liars' Club in upstate New York. It's all beginning to come back to me now ...
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