title: The Satanic Nurses: And Other Literary Parodies
author:  J. B. Miller 
description: Casting aside all caution, this reviewer hereby pronounces this  book a necessity for every person who fancies madcap humor.  Playwright and novelist Miller (My Life in Action Painting)  offers some of the most adroit and exhilarating, not to mention  irreverent, parody since Max Beerbohm, and that is high praise  indeed. Unless you are an austere soul who cannot abide seeing  some of your favorite authors made sport of, you will laugh  outright as the idiosyncratic writing styles and mannerisms of  45 dissimilar literary celebrities-such as Hemingway, Salinger,  Updike, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, J. K. Rowling, Salman  Rushdie, and E. Annie Proulx-are evoked and captured through  imitation, exaggeration, and horseplay. When he is on target,  and he usually is, Miller is unbeatable-funny and true. The most  exigent opera bouffe fan could hardly ask for more.<br /><i>A.J.  Anderson, Simmons Coll., Boston   </i><br />Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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