Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1841596213 ISBN 13: 9781841596211

Casa editrice: Everyman, 2016

Riassunto

In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories by P. G. Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis; Charles Jackson and Jean Rhys chronicle liquor-soaked epiphanies; while John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov and Robert Coover set their characters afloat on surreal, soul-revealing adventures. Here, too, are well-lubricated tales by Dickens, Twain, Beckett, Colette, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Doris Lessing, Frank O'Connor, Penelope Lively, and many more.

The settings include hotels and restaurants, a wine cellar in Italy, a café in Paris, a bar in Dublin, a New York nightclub, Jazz Age speakeasies, suburban lawn parties and the occasional gaol cell, and are peopled by lovers and loners, barmen and chorus girls, youths taking their first sips and experienced tipplers nursing hangovers.

Whether living it up or drowning their sorrows, the vividly drawn characters in these sparkling pages will leave you shaken and stirred.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

An imaginative cocktail of stories about drinking and making merry by great writers from the past two centuries.

L'autore:

Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of several short-story anthologies in the Everyman Pocket Classics series, including Christmas Stories, Lullabies and Poems for Children, Love Stories, Cat Stories andStories from the Kitchen.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Everyman
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1841596213
• ISBN 13: 9781841596211
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 400
• Redattore: Secker Tesdell Diana