The Digested Read: v. 2 - Hardcover

Crace, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0852650639 ISBN 13: 9780852650639

Publisher: Guardian Books, 2006

Synopsis

The second volume of John Crace's "Digested Read" carries on where the first volume left off. Naomi Wolf, Paul Auster, Bret Easton Ellis, Michel Houellebecq, Tony Parsons, AA Gill, Stephen Hawking, Liz Jones...even the Bible - no one escapes Crace's brilliant pastiche, as every clunky plot device and pretentious stylistic tic of the latest over-hyped book is exposed in 500 hilarious words. Crace goes where the reviewers fear to tread to serve up his own rare mix of stylish intelligence and humour. As John Sutherland, chair of last year's Booker Prize, says: "Unlike with other forms of digestion, what comes out of John Crace's "Digested Read" is often a great deal better than what went in".

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Product Description

In this second collection from The Guardian's 'Digested Read' column, John Crace walks where other reviewers fear to tread, summarizing (in the style of the author) and satirizing everything from Booker Prizewinners to celebrity autobiographies. No literary reputation is too great to escape parody - Bret Easton Ellis, Peter Ackroyd, Will Self, Jamie Oliver ... This second collection brings together over 110 pieces in chapters such as 'Prizewinners and Nominees', 'Memoirs' and 'Sleaze' - that's over 110 books you wouldn't have had time to read anyway. Slightly off-mint.

Review

"'Brilliantly ruthlessly funny. My kids read mine aloud to me till I cried.' JULIE MYERSON 'What I like about the digested read is that, unlike the other kind of digestion, what comes out is usually better than what went in.' JOHN SUTHERLAND 'We all need cutting down to size, don't we? The Guardian does a brilliant Job. Dammit.' SUE MAcGREGOR 'We all have to grit our teeth and submit to John Crace's merciless mockery. I do it with a good grace because he makes me laugh so much.' JOAN BAKEWELL"

Edition details

• Publisher: Guardian Books
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0852650639
• ISBN 13: 9780852650639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272