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These short stories marked Jonathan Meades's fiction debut. They are black comedies, peopled with the sort of characters who lurk and linger round the back alleys of the mind, such as a dog who stars in bestial pornographic films and describes the slippery slope towards aniseed addiction.
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'One of the funniest and truest writers we have. No one understands England better than Meades.'
Stephen Fry
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'Jonathan Coe meets Edgar Allen Poe.'
Esquire
'By the end I was appalled by the extent of my own admiration for this nastily comic tale. This comedy is not so much black as draped in sackcloth and ashes.'
Bel Mooney, The Times
'Indecently funny. Few novels are as lively as this.'
Christopher Bray, Mail on Sunday
Bestial pornographic movies and aniseed addiction; hallucinogenic mushrooms and incest; a homosexual crime passionel. As you would expect from Jonathan Meades, his disturbing collection of short stories introduces us to characters who lurk and linger around the back alleys of the mind.
'A marvellously potent vision.'
Nicholas Shakespeare, 'The Times'
'Luminously tasteless'
Roger Lewis, 'Punch'
'Jonathan Meades' enticingly repellent stories are posh bovver – they reach into parts of society more sensitive black comedians might well retch away from.'
Valentine Cunningham, 'Observer'
'A hugely original imagination – it's also undeniably horrible.'
Robert Nye, 'Guardian'
'Real flair and captivating eccentricity.'
John Melmouth, 'TLS'
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- PublisherTriad Paladin Books
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0586085505
- ISBN 13 9780586085509
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages144
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