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21%OFFSebastian Faulks - Pistache - 9780099549499 - V9780099549499
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Pistache

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Description for Pistache Paperback. A collection of parodies. It contains works from Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: WHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 9. Weight in Grams: 90.

pistache (pis-tash): a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. [Deriv uncertain. Possibly a cross between pastiche and p**stake.]

From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the not-so-great is here sent up with little hope of coming down.

Most of these pieces began their life on Radio Four's The Write Stuff, but have been retooled for the printed page. Others, such as Martin Amis's first day at Hogwarts, have been written specially for this collection.

Philip Larkin's Lines in Celebration of the ... Read more, first banned, then cut by the BBC, appears in its entirety for the first time.

This is not a book for the faint-hearted or the downstairs lavatory. It is a book for the bedside table of someone you cannot live without.

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Product Details

Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099549499
SKU
V9780099549499
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About Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He ... Read more

Reviews for Pistache
Unforgivably witty
Sunday Telegraph
Faulks picks up the big names of the Western canon and plonks them down mercilessly in the most unexpected places
The Times

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