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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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Praise for "Sartre's Sink: The Great Writers' Complete Book of DIY " 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 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 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 Praise for "Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 17 Recipes" A miniature masterpiece.Daily Mail 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 Irresistibly moreish ... imaginative and entertaining. Independent on Sunday" Read more...
