Brideshead Abbreviated : The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century

Crace, John

ISBN 10: 0099505452 / ISBN 13: 9780099505457

Verlag: Penguin Random House, 2011

Beschreibung

Ships from the UK. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 46712516-20

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Brideshead Abbreviated : The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century
• Verlag: Penguin Random House
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0099505452
• ISBN-13: 9780099505457
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: As New

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Inhaltsangabe

John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review section, fearful that it may be their turn to be mercilessly sent up.

Now he turns his critical eye on the classics of the last century, offering bite-sized pastiches of everything from Mrs Dalloway to Trainspotting via Lolita and The Great Gatsby. Those who have never quite got around to reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man will be delighted to find its essence distilled into a handful of paragraphs. Those who have never really enjoyed Lord of the Flies will be pleased to find it hilariously parodied in an easily swallowable 982 words. And those who find all such works a little highbrow will be relieved to discover, between the covers of this book, John Crace's take on the likes of Ian Fleming, P. G. Wodehouse and the Highway Code.

Witty and sharp, this is essential reading both for those who genuinely love literature and for those who merely want to appear ridiculously well read.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Crace is the Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer and author of the ‘Digested Read’ columns and he writes regularly for Grazia. He is the author of I Never Promised you a Rose Garden: A short guide to modern politics, the coalition and the general election and also Baby Alarm: A Neurotic’s Guide to Fatherhood, Vertigo: One Football Fan's Fear of Success , Harry's Games: Inside the Mind of Harry Redknapp, Brideshead Abbreviated: the Digested Read of the Twentieth Century and The Digested Twenty-first Century. He lives in London.