Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories (Everyman's Library

Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

Shaken and Stirred is an enticing literary cocktail of stories about drinking and making merry by great writers from the past two centuries.
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In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppances at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents overimbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories by P. G. Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis;Â 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, Dawn Powell, Clarice Lispector, Joy Williams, Penelope Lively, and many more.

The settings include hotels and restaurants, a wine cellar in Italy, a cafÂ© in Paris, a bar in Dublin, a New York nightclub, Jazz Age speakeasies, suburban lawn parties, and the occasional jail cell, and are peopled by lovers and loners, bartenders and chorus girls, youths taking their first sips and experienced tipplers waking with hangovers. Whether living it up or drowning their sorrows, the vividly drawn characters in these sparkling pages will leave you shaken and stirred.
Country USA
Brand Everyman's Library
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781101907801
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2016-09-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781101907801

Country	USA
Brand	Everyman's Library
Manufacturer	Everyman's Library
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781101907801
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2016-09-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781101907801

Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

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