Author: Sebastian Faulks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099549499
Category : Imitation in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
pistache (pis-tash)- a friendly spoof or parody of another?s work. Deriv uncertain. Possibly a cross between pastiche and p**stake. From Thomas Hardy?s football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the not-so-great is here sent up with little hope of coming down. Most of these pieces began their life on Radio Four?s The Write Stuff, but have been retooled for the printed page. Others, such as Martin Amis?s first day at Hogwarts, have been written specially for this collection. Philip Larkin?s Lines in Celebration of the Queen Mother?s 115th Birthday, first banned, then cut by the BBC, appears in its entirety for the first time. This is not a book for the faint-hearted or the downstairs lavatory. It is a book for the bedside table of someone you cannot live without.
Pistache Returns
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 140909927X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Robinson Crusoe discovers thousands of ‘half-naked savages’ having it large on Ibiza. James Bond is on a mission, as a 24-hour call-out plumber. ‘The young stable lad is a moody fellow,’ say reviewers of Wuthering Heights in The Good Hotel Guide. Hans Christian Andersen gets into the subprime mortgage racket. Stephen King attempts a love story that doesn’t involve buckets of blood. Robbie Burns cheers on Andy Murray at Wimbledon. And Harry Potter is left high and dry when Ginny kicks him out and keeps the house. Re-mixed and re-imagined, this is literature but not as you know it.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 140909927X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Robinson Crusoe discovers thousands of ‘half-naked savages’ having it large on Ibiza. James Bond is on a mission, as a 24-hour call-out plumber. ‘The young stable lad is a moody fellow,’ say reviewers of Wuthering Heights in The Good Hotel Guide. Hans Christian Andersen gets into the subprime mortgage racket. Stephen King attempts a love story that doesn’t involve buckets of blood. Robbie Burns cheers on Andy Murray at Wimbledon. And Harry Potter is left high and dry when Ginny kicks him out and keeps the house. Re-mixed and re-imagined, this is literature but not as you know it.