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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Crick |
| ISBN: | 9781847082527 1847082521 |
| OCLC Number: | 751723366 |
| Notes: | "Excepting the preface, the text in this book was previously published with colour illustrations in three volumes: Kafka's Soup, first published by Libri Publications Ltd, 2005, extended paperback edition published by Granta Books 2007; Sartre's Sink, published by Granta Books 2008; Machiavelli's Lawn, published by Granta Books 2011"--T.p. verso. |
| Description: | x, 276 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface, with Mrs Isabella Beeton -- Great writers in the kitchen. Lamb with dill sauce à la Raymond Chandler -- Tarragon eggs à la Jane Austen -- Quick miso soup à la Franz Kafka -- Rich chocolate cake à la Irvine Welsh -- Tiramisu à la Marcel Proust -- Coq au vin à la Gabriel García Márquez -- Mushroom risotto à la John Steinbeck -- Boned stuffed poussins à la Marquis de Sade -- Clafoutis grandmère à la Virginia Woolf -- Fenkata à la Homer -- Vietnamese chicken à la Graham Greene -- Sole à la Dieppoise à la Jorge Luis Borges -- Cheese on toast à la Harold Pinter -- Onion tart à la Geoffrey Chaucer -- Rösti à la Thomas Mann -- Moules marinière à la Italo Calvino -- Plum pudding à la Charles Dickens -- Great writers' DIY tips. Hanging wallpaper with Ernest Hemingway -- Bleeding a radiator with Emily Brontë -- Reglazing a window with Milan Kundera -- Replacing a light switch with Elfriede Jelinek -- Painting a room with Haruki Murakami -- Tiling a bathroom with Fyodor Dostoevsky -- Putting up a shelf with Julius Caesar -- Repairing a dripping tap with Marguerite Duras -- Boarding an attic with Edgar Allan Poe -- Putting up a garden fence with Hunter S. Thompson -- Applying sealant round a bath with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Remedying a drawer that sticks with Samuel Beckett Unblocking a sink with Jean-Paul Sartre -- Painting a panelled door with Anaïs Nin -- Great writers in the garden. Introduction with Niccolò Machiavelli -- Planting a hanging basket with Raymond Carver -- Growing potatoes with Bertolt Brecht -- Dividing bamboo with Isabel Allende -- On the art of mowing with Niccolò Machiavelli -- Planting a fruit tree with Henrik Ibsen -- Removing a sucker with Bret Easton Ellis -- Burying bulbs in autumn with Sylvia Plath -- Weeding by hand with Émile Zola -- Caring for heather with Alan Bennett -- Propagating from a vine with Mary Shelley -- Repotting a house plant with Martin Amis -- How to prune the rose with Pablo Neruda. |
| Responsibility: | Mark Crick. |
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<p>Praise for "Sartre's Sink: The Great Writers' Complete Book of DIY <br>"<br>Here is the John Sergeant of humorous books, the one who comes out of nowhere to become a surprise success ...It's short, to the point, and when I read it out in the office, my colleagues laughed like drains (which then had to be cleared by Jean-Paul Sartre). Roland White, Sunday Times <br><br>Parodying everyone from Goethe to Hunter S Thompson through their handy household hints. It also contains pastiche illustrations which aren't just funny and apt but also rather beautiful. Martin Rowson, Independent on Sunday <br><br>This brilliantly inventive DIY manual both parodies and celebrates great authors ... Crick is a brilliant literary ventriloquist ... next time you need to replace a light switch, seal the edge of a sink or put up a shelf, this is the book for you. And you can comfort yourself, as you toil, that at least you're in the company of great writers. Rosie Blau, Financial Times <br><br>Praise for "Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 17 Recipes"<br> <br>A miniature masterpiece.Daily Mail <br><br>Humour is a rare commodity in food books - guilt is more popular - but these literary and visual pastiches of writers and their relationships with food provide a laugh a line as they skewer their literary originals with effortless accuracy ... The Irvine Welsh is a masterpiece. But then, so is the whole book. Guardian, Tom Jaine <br><br>Irresistibly moreish ... imaginative and entertaining. Independent on Sunday Read more...
