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Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

by KingsleyAmis (Author)

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    Hardcover 2008

    $13.15
Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 320
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 03 Nov 2008
ISBN 10: 0747599785
ISBN 13: 9780747599784
Book Overview: An long forgotten work by a beloved author: Amis has an undying fan base, but these books have somehow remained out of print for 25 years. A Great Gift: Roughly 100% of Kingsley Amis fans enjoy the occasional drink, so this is an ideal gift for dads, recent English grads, and other hard-boozing literati. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens: As a journalist, bestselling author, critic and political observer, a friend of the Amis family, and an occasional drinker in his own right, Hitchens is the perfect person to introduce this book.

Media Reviews
Kingsley Amis's drink writing is better than anybody else's, ever... - Esquire These books are so delicious they impart a kind of contact high; they make you feel as if you've just had the first sip of the planet's coldest, driest martini. - The New York Times Daily Review There has never been a more charming, erudite, eager, generous and devoted lover of drink - to judge by his writing - than Kingsley Amis. - The New York Times Sunday Book Review His treatise on the hangover (both physical and metaphysical) is among his best known for a reason, and is required reading for the dipsomaniacs amongst us. - The Washington Times
Author Bio
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.