Mere Anarchy - Softcover

Allen, Woody

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812979508 ISBN 13: 9780812979503

Publisher: Random House Trade, 2008

Synopsis

Here, in his first collection since his three hilarious classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, Woody Allen has managed to write a book that not only answers the most profound questions of human existence but is also the perfect size to place under any short table leg to prevent wobbling.

In hysterical flights of inspirational sanity we are introduced to a cast of characters only Allen could imagine: Jasper Nutmeat, Flanders Mealworm, and the independent film mogul E. Coli Biggs, just to name a few. Whether he is writing about art, sex, food, or crime, he is explosively funny. In "This Nib for Hire," a Hollywood bigwig comes across an author's book in a little country store and describes it in a way that aptly captures this magnificent volume: "Actually," the producer says, "I'd never seen a book remaindered in the kindling section before."

Praise for Mere Anarchy

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

"The stories in Mere Anarchy deliver the same joys and foibles that have been with its author from the start."
-Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"Uproarious . . . In each story the ornate and the vulgate slam together and make it rain polysyllabic absurdity."
-The Wall Street Journal

"Nostalgically enjoyable . . . The stories in Mere Anarchy deliver the same joys and foibles that have been with its author from the start."
-The New York Times

"Brilliant neurotica . . . unfailingly entertaining . . . [an] obsessive and seriously funny book."
-Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Like the Carnegie's one-pound sandwiches, Allen's literary slapstick is . . . comedy on wry."
-USA Today

About this title

Review:

"Allen is the funniest man in the world. Buy this book at once" (the Times)

"One of the world's funniest writers" (Irish Times)

"Mere Anarchy breaks a 27-year drought for fans of Allen the literary prankster. It more than justifies the wait... His stories are delicious confections: virtuoso turns, tipsy on their own linguistic ingenuity" (Independent)

"If Allen had lived in Augustan England scholars would now be considering him alongisde Dryden, Pope and Swift" (Daily Telegraph)

"Touched by genius" (Glasgow Herald)

Book Description:

A collection of hilarious short stories from one of the world's funniest writers

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0812979508
• ISBN 13: 9780812979503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176