Synopses & Reviews
I don't think that Washington Irving, America's firstgreat satirist, would mind that someone had decided torouse him after so many years of placid entombment andallow him to experience the faded glory of the 1960s. In hisiconic farce of 1809, Knickerbocker's History, Irving pushedthe limits of absurdity. Nicholas DiGiovanni has done thesame here, mocking the mock-historian. In 'Rip, ' he hasIrving's idle hero set aside his fowling piece and become atoll taker on the Tappan Zee Bridge. It is, to paraphraseIrving, a sprightly tale.- Andrew Burstein, author, The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving.Nick DiGiovanni has the soul of Vonnegut and the passion of Doctorow...amaster storyteller.- Christian Bauman, author,In Hoboken and The Ice Beneath You