Filthy English - Hardcover
These short stories mark the start of a brilliant and black literary career.A dog who stars in bestial pornographic movies describes the slippery slope towards aniseed addiction in 'Fur and Skin'. 'The Sylvan Life' is a story of rustling, hallucinogenic mushrooms and incest as they proliferate in the New Forest. In 'Spring and Fall' a rich and childless woman offers a sybaritic young boy a clandestine family life which becomes his downfall. The most extraordinary circumstances combine to provide the perfect alibi for a homosexual 'crime passionnel' in 'Oh So Bent', 'The Brute's Price' demonstrates the inadvertent steps an innocent man may take in bringing himself under suspicion of heinous murders on Portland. An injection of the criminal element into the pretensions of suburban Surrey provides the squalid drama of 'Rhododendron Gulch'. In the title story a relentlessly pedantic urge of a lexicographer to discover why his surname is a slang word for 'foot' leads him to a nightmarish revelation.Jonathan Meades has a black imagination. Not content with disarming his readers an outrageous premise, he continues to tease their curiosity from one end of each story to the other. His is the kind of originality that comes along rarely, his characters the sort who lurk and linger round the back alleys of the mind.
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About the Author:
Jonathan Meades is the author of Filthy English, Peter Knows What Dick Likes, Pompey and, most recently, The Fowler Family Business. He has written and performed in some twenty-five TV films on such subjects as the utopian avoidance of right angles, vertigo's lure, beer and Birmingham's appeal. He was, for many years, restaurant critic for The Times.
Review:
'One of the funniest and truest writers we have. No one understands England better than Meades.'Stephen Fry* Praise for The Fowler Family Business'Jonathan Coe meets Edgar Allen Poe.'Esquire'By the end I was appalled by the extent of my own admiration for this nastily comic tale. This comedy is not so much black as draped in sackcloth and ashes.'Bel Mooney, The Times'Indecently funny. Few novels are as lively as this.'Christopher Bray, Mail on Sunday
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0224021451
- ISBN 13 9780224021456
- BindingHardcover
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 160. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Review copy with publishers printed review slip loosely inserted. Front panel of jacket designed by Ralph Steadman. Signed presentation from the author to his friend and colleague, the film critic and reviewer, Chris Peachment (who reviewed the book in Time Out), "To Chris, tons of love, Jonathan." ISBN: 0224021451 Three inked annotations in the hand of Chris Peachment on pp 44-46. Fine in fine dust jacket. Excellent condition. Signedes. Seller Inventory # C59724
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. One of the best 'undiscovered' writers in the English speaking world. The time to discover him is now. Droll, certainly, and funny without question, but all this author's work is consistently entertaining, whether it is factual or fictional or simply complex. A weaver of woads, too; some of which you might have to look up. Treat yourself to this superb original story collection and you may well throw away all the best selling formulaic stuff you have been hiding in all these years. Find out what you've been missing from this non conformist. You'll also learn something about fine English prose spiked with mordant wit. Think Wodehouse crossed with Waugh, but with some added wisdom and hot chili pepper. This copy is the first printing, and it is damn near Fine. Meades is a bit of a mean signer, so this is RARE. Snap it up. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # ABE-10607830703
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