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The Household Tips of the Great Writers

Autor Mark Crick
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 noi 2011
"As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with a Great Writer and his house."
Household Tips of the Great writers covers all your household needs, indoors and outdoors, from pruning a rose bush with Pablo Neruda to mending a dripping tap with Jean-Paul Sartre. Throwing a tea-party? Irvine Welsh has the recipe for the perfect chocolate cake, though that's not all he's cooking. Brilliant, hilarious, and always pitch-perfect, this omnibus edition of Mark Crick's wonderful books of literary pastiche will inform and entertain the most erudite of householders.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847082527
ISBN-10: 1847082521
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 138 x 204 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Granta Books

Cuprins

Great Writers in the Kitchen
Lamb with Dill Sauce a la Raymond Chandler
Tarragon Eggs a la Jane Austen
Quick Miso Soup a la Franz Kafka
Rich Chocolate Cake a la Irvine Welsh
Tiramisu a la Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mushroom Risotto a la John Steinbeck
Boned Stuffe Poussins a la Marquis de Sade
Clafoutis Grandmere a la Virginia Woolf
Fenkata a la Homer
Vietnamese Chicken a la Graham Greene
Sole a la Dieppoise a la Jorge Luis Borges
Cheese on Toast a la Harold Pinter
Onion Tart a la Geoffrey Cahucer
Rosti a la Thomas Mann
Moules Mariniere a la Italo Calvino
Plum Pudding a la Charles Dickens
Great Writer' DIY Tips
Hanging Wallpaper with Ernest Hemingway
Bleeding a Radiator with Emily Bronte
Reglazing a Window with Milan Kindera
Replacing a Light Switch with Elffriede Jelinek
Painting a Room with Haruki Murakami
Tiling a Bathroom with Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Putting up a Shelf with Julius Caesar
Repairing a Dripping Tap with Marguerite Duras
Putting up a Garden Febce with Hunter S. Thompson
Applying Sealant round a Bath with Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Remedying a drawer that Sticks with Samuel Beckett
Unblocking a Sink with Jean-Paul Sartre
Painting a Pannelled Door with Anais Nin
Great Writers in the Garden
Introduction with Niccolo Machiavelli
Planting a Hanging Basket with Raymond Carver
Growing Potatoes with Bertolt Brecht
Dividing a Bamboo with Isabel Allende
On the Art of Mowing with Niccolo Machiavelli
Planting a Fruit Tree with Henrik Ibsen
Removing a Sucker with Bret Easton Ellis
Burying Bulbs in Autumn with Sylvia Plath
Weeding by Hand with Emile Zola
Caring for Heather with Alan Bennett
Propagating from a Vine with Mary Shelley
Repotting a House Plant with Martin Amis
How to Prune a Rose with Pablo Neruda

Recenzii

Praise for Sartre's Sink: The Great Writers' Complete Book of DIY

Here is the John Sergeant of humorous books, the one who comes out of nowhere to become a surprise success ...It's short, to the point, and when I read it out in the office, my colleagues laughed like drains (which then had to be cleared by Jean-Paul Sartre). Roland White, Sunday Times

Parodying everyone from Goethe to Hunter S Thompson through their handy household hints. It also contains pastiche illustrations which aren't just funny and apt but also rather beautiful. Martin Rowson, Independent on Sunday

This brilliantly inventive DIY manual both parodies and celebrates great authors ... Crick is a brilliant literary ventriloquist ... next time you need to replace a light switch, seal the edge of a sink or put up a shelf, this is the book for you. And you can comfort yourself, as you toil, that at least you're in the company of great writers. Rosie Blau, Financial Times

Praise for Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 17 Recipes
 
A miniature masterpiece.Daily Mail

Humour is a rare commodity in food books - guilt is more popular - but these literary and visual pastiches of writers and their relationships with food provide a laugh a line as they skewer their literary originals with effortless accuracy ... The Irvine Welsh is a masterpiece. But then, so is the whole book. Guardian, Tom Jaine

Irresistibly moreish ... imaginative and entertaining. Independent on Sunday

Praise for "Sartre's Sink: The Great Writers' Complete Book of DIY "Here is the John Sergeant of humorous books, the one who comes out of nowhere to become a surprise success ...It's short, to the point, and when I read it out in the office, my colleagues laughed like drains (which then had to be cleared by Jean-Paul Sartre). Roland White, Sunday Times Parodying everyone from Goethe to Hunter S Thompson through their handy household hints. It also contains pastiche illustrations which aren't just funny and apt but also rather beautiful. Martin Rowson, Independent on Sunday This brilliantly inventive DIY manual both parodies and celebrates great authors ... Crick is a brilliant literary ventriloquist ... next time you need to replace a light switch, seal the edge of a sink or put up a shelf, this is the book for you. And you can comfort yourself, as you toil, that at least you're in the company of great writers. Rosie Blau, Financial Times Praise for "Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 17 Recipes" A miniature masterpiece.Daily Mail Humour is a rare commodity in food books - guilt is more popular - but these literary and visual pastiches of writers and their relationships with food provide a laugh a line as they skewer their literary originals with effortless accuracy ... The Irvine Welsh is a masterpiece. But then, so is the whole book. Guardian, Tom Jaine Irresistibly moreish ... imaginative and entertaining. Independent on Sunday

Notă biografică

Mark Crick is a photographer and the author of Kafka's Soup, Sartre's Sink and Machiavelli's Lawn. He lives in London.

Descriere

"Household Tips of the Great Writers" covers all household needs, indoors and outdoors. Brilliant, hilarious, and always pitch-perfect, this omnibus edition of Crick's wonderful books of literary pastiche will inform the most erudite of householders.