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The Household Tips of the Great Writers
The Household Tips of the Great Writers
The Household Tips of the Great Writers
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The Household Tips of the Great Writers

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What would literary lions tell us about cooking, cleaning, and gardening? A three-book collection of parody and practical advice by a “brilliant” humorist (The Financial Times).
 
The Household Tips of Great Writers covers all your household needs, indoors and outdoors, from pruning a rose bush with Pablo Neruda to mending a dripping tap with Jean-Paul Sartre. Throwing a tea party? Irvine Welsh has the recipe for the perfect chocolate cake, though that's not all he's cooking. Brilliant, hilarious, and always pitch-perfect, this omnibus edition of Mark Crick's wonderful books of literary pastiche will inform and entertain the most erudite of householders. Includes:
 
Sartre’s Sink
 
“This brilliantly inventive DIY manual both parodies and celebrates great authors ... Crick is a brilliant literary ventriloquist.”—The Financial Times
 
Kafka’s Soup
 
“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...a masterpiece.”—The Guardian
 
Machiavelli’s Lawn
 
“Erudite and enjoyable prose, no less rewarding for its horticultural accuracy.”—Times Literary Supplement
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Release dateNov 3, 2011
ISBN9781847085726
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    An amusing collection of recipes, household and gardening tips. Crick has used the style of each of the featured writers to write each entry. Machiavelli on rebellious lawns, Mary Shelly on grafting, Edgar Allen Poe on putting a floor down in the attic.This is much more enjoyable if you are familiar with the featured authors. The entries in the style of authors I was not familiar with were somewhat tedious and I skimmed or skipped most of them. A few however, were good stories in their own right, and so engaged me. The entries from authors I was familiar with were charming/hilarious. Many of the recipes, when you could suss them out of the story, sounded delicious. The household and gardening tips were sound, as with the recipes, when one pulled out the pertinent bits.

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