Everyday Drinking

The Distilled Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2009 | UK ed.
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-1-4088-0383-7 (ISBN)

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A gift for anyone who loves good liquor and high-proof prose: a collection of hilarious and deeply informed writings about drink from one of the all-time authorities. With an Introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject: Kingsley Amis in Drink, Everyday Drinking and How's Your Glass? In one handsome package, the book covers a full shelf of the master's riotous and erudite thoughts on the drinking arts: Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) are Amis's musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man's Diet, The Mean Sod's Guide, and (presumably as a matter of speculation) How Not to Get Drunk - all leavened with fun quizzes on the making and drinking of alcohol all over the world. Mixing practical know-how and hilarious opinionation, this is a delightful cocktail of wry humour and distilled knowledge, served by one of our great gimlet wits.

Born in London in 1922, Kingsley Amis was one of the best-loved British novelists of the twentieth century. He was the author of more than twenty novels, including the classic Lucky Jim, and a number of other works of criticism, poetry, and memoir. He was knighted in 1990, and died in 1995 at the age of seventy-three.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.11.2009
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke
ISBN-10	1-4088-0383-6 / 1408803836
ISBN-13	978-1-4088-0383-7 / 9781408803837
Zustand	Neuware