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Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories

Hardback

Main Details

Title Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
By (author) Various
SeriesEveryman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:400
Dimensions(mm): Height 190,Width 214
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9781841596211
ClassificationsDewey:813.010806
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Everyman
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publication Date 7 July 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

An imaginative cocktail of stories about drinking and making merry by great writers from the past two centuries. In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; 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, Doris Lessing, Frank O'Connor, Penelope Lively, and many more.The settings include hotels and restaurants, a wine cellar in Italy, a cafe in Paris, a bar in Dublin, a New York nightclub, Jazz Age speakeasies, suburban lawn parties and the occasional gaol cell, and are peopled by lovers and loners, barmen and chorus girls, youths taking their first sips and experienced tipplers nursing hangovers.Whether living it up or drowning their sorrows, the vividly drawn characters in these sparkling pages will leave you shaken and stirred.

Author Biography

Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of several short-story anthologies in the Everyman Pocket Classics series, including Christmas Stories, Lullabies and Poems for Children, Love Stories, Cat Stories andStories from the Kitchen.