Shaken and Stirred
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Shaken and Stirred by Diana Secker Tesdell
Shaken and Stirred is an enticing literary cocktail of stories about drinking and making merry by great writers from the past two centuries.In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppances at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; 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, Dawn Powell, Clarice Lispector, Joy Williams, 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 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.
Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of the Christmas Tales, Love Stories, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, Horse Stories, New York Stories, Bedtime Stories, Stories of Art and Artists, Stories of Fatherhood, Stories of Motherhood, Stories of the Sea, and Stories from the Kitchen collections, as well as the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet Lullabies and Poetry for Children anthologies.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781101907801 |
| ISBN 10 | 1101907800 |
| Title | Shaken and Stirred |
| Author | Diana Secker Tesdell |
| Series | Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2016-09-06 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |