Carnal Knowledge: Screenplay [Hardcover]

Jules Feiffer (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; First Edition edition (November 25, 1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0224006843
• ISBN-13: 978-0224006842
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,465,032 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jules Feiffer lives in New York City with his wife, Jenny. Along with being a famed cartoonist, Feiffer is also the author of numerous novels, children's books, plays and screenplays, including Carnal Knowledge, Harry, The Rat with Women and Little Murders, which was made into a celebrated movie.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The movie was good, July 25, 2004

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Bruce P. Barten (Saint Paul, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carnal Knowledge (Paperback)

I'm sure I bought this book back in the days before videotape made it easy to watch certain movies whenever it seemed like a good idea. There were a few pictures in the book, and I even have a reunion picture of the cast, Candice Bergen, Art Garfunkel, Jack Nicholson, and Ann-Margret with Mike Nichols taken on January 28, 2001 by Annie Leibovitz to remind me that the sexual competition between guys can turn into a lifelong quest for more excitement if women don't actually control the magical element of who is whose in a way that is more subtle than the plot of this movie. The men in this movie appear to be successful professional American men, but the wit which is turned on their situation in this movie lacerates life as we know it. As a book, it offers a script that provides the bare bones for understanding the assumptions behind the assertion of self as a controling motif in sexuality. The tension between characters has aged well, as society in general seems to have become less able to cope with the people who actually live here and might even have to pay the bills someday. Watching the movie can be a lot of look, look, look, while the years fly by, but having the book is something you can throw at the wall without doing much damage, if your aim is halfway decent and you don't have anything in the house that you might want to destroy.