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John Crace turns his critical eye on the classics of the last century, offering bite-sized pastiches of everything from Mrs Dalloway to Trainspotting via Lolita and The Great Gatsby. Those who have never quite got around to reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man will be delighted to find its essence distilled into a handful of paragraphs. Those who have never really enjoyed Lord of the Flies will be pleased to find it hilariously parodied in an easily swallowable 982 words. And those who find all such works a little highbrow will be relieved to discover, between the covers of this book, John Crace's take on the likes of Ian Fleming, P. G. Wodehouse, and the Highway Code. Witty and sharp, this is essential reading both for those who genuinely love literature and for those who merely want to appear ridiculously well read.
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John Crace is a Guardian staff feature writer and columnist, and author of the regular Digested Read and Digested Classic columns.
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"A swift kick up the backside to some of modern literature's most iconic works. Accurate,
merciless and very, very funny."
—Sarah Waters
"I've read all these books at least twice — and now I've read John Crace's digested
versions I wonder why I bothered."
—Will Self
"A genius and a madman. The meanest, funniest parodist alive."
—Joanna Briscoe
"For the last 10 years [Crace's] Digested Reads have been reason enough to buy the
Guardian. Taking a well-known novel, he gives a brief distillation of the plot while
capturing — often perfectly — the tone of its author. At the same time, he jabs a
sharpened elbow into their pomposities and limitations."
—Spectator
From the Trade Paperback edition.
merciless and very, very funny."
—Sarah Waters
"I've read all these books at least twice — and now I've read John Crace's digested
versions I wonder why I bothered."
—Will Self
"A genius and a madman. The meanest, funniest parodist alive."
—Joanna Briscoe
"For the last 10 years [Crace's] Digested Reads have been reason enough to buy the
Guardian. Taking a well-known novel, he gives a brief distillation of the plot while
capturing — often perfectly — the tone of its author. At the same time, he jabs a
sharpened elbow into their pomposities and limitations."
—Spectator
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- PublisherRandom House UK
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1905211554
- ISBN 13 9781905211555
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages356
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