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The Digested Twenty-first Century de John Crace

The Digested Twenty-first Century

Autor John Crace
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 apr 2014
John Crace's Digested Read first appeared in in February 2000 and has been running ever since. Each week Crace reduces a new book – anything from a Booker Prize winner to a Nigella cookery book is fair game – to 700 words in a parody of the plot, style, dialogue and themes. Or lack of them. The Digested Read has not just become an institution for readers; it is read and enjoyed by publishers and authors too. So long as it is not their book being digested. A few years ago Crace wrote Brideshead Abbreviated, A Digested Read of the 20th Century. This is the 21st Century. So far.
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ISBN-13: 9781780338583
ISBN-10: 1780338589
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 200 x 138 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Constable & Robinson
Colecția Constable
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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A swift kick up the backside to some of modern literature's most iconic works. Accurate, merciless and very, very funny.
I've read all these books at least twice - and now I've read John Crace's digested versions I wonder why I bothered.
For the last 10 years [Crace's] 'Digested Reads' have been reason enough to buy the Guardian. Taking a well-known novel, he gives a brief distillation of the plot while capturing - often perfectly - the tone of its author. At the same time, he jabs a sharpened elbow into their pomposities and limitations.
Praise for John Crace’s Digested Reads:
‘I've read all these books. . . and now I've read John Crace’s digested versions I wonder why I bothered.’ Will Self
‘[Crace's] Digested Reads have been reason enough to buy the Guardian. Taking a well-known novel, he gives a brief distillation of the plot while capturing – often perfectly – the tone of its author. At the same time, he jabs a sharpened elbow into their pomposities and limitations.’ Spectator
‘We all have to grit our teeth and submit to John Crace's merciless mockery. I do it with a good grace because he makes me laugh so much.’ Joan Bakewell
‘Brilliantly, ruthlessly funny.’ Julie Myerson
‘What I like about the Digested Read is that, unlike the other kind of digestion, what comes out is usually better than what went in.’ John Sutherland
‘The meanest, funniest parodist alive.’ Joanna Briscoe