The feather merchants

This book has a bone to pick with you -- a funny bone. It is the story of a sergeant by a sergeant, all about said sergeant's adventures on the damnedest front of the war -- the home front! In case you didn't know, "Feather Merchants" is G.I. slang for civilians. Shulman, America's bright new apostle of zany, used to be a feather merchant himself, which makes him the perfect author for this roaring, good-natured travesty. It shouldn't happen to us civilians, but it has, and you had better read it "on account of the duration" as one of Shulman's characters describes the fix we're in. Behold the tale: As he leaves the peace and security of the air base, Sgt. Dan Miller is just a happy soldier going home on furlough. But he is ambushed by an advance patrol of feather merchants as he gets off the train in Minneapolis. They drive him home on black-market gas, gorge him on hoarded food, sir him down at a suspiciously new deluxe radio to hear the omniscient A. K. Hockfleisch's war-news broadcast. But the block-buster that completely shatters his illusions about the privations of his people comes from the most desirable feather merchant of them all, lovely Estherlee McCracken. She says that Sgt. Dan is a desk soldier and the hell with him. Buy bonds. Stung by his girl's rebuff, bewildered by the abundance of transportation and victuals in a world of (supposedly) no gas, no tires, no butter, and no steaks, Dan goes to the Sty to drown his sorrows in the watered whiskey and fabulous floor show offered in that charming establishment. But it is his undoing, for there he gets himself rumored into the role of a hero -- with explosive results. THE FEATHER MERCHANTS is the first book about civilians by a soldier, and maybe we had it coming to us. Only Shulman could have written it, only those with a wide-open sense of humor ought to read it, and only William Crawford could have drawn...
ASIN: B0007DK8OI
VSKU: RDV.B0007DK8OI.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:Shulman, Max
Binding: Hardcover
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Condition Notes: This book is a well used but readable copy. Integrity of the book is still intact with no missing pages. The dust jacket is missing. May have notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.