The Digested Read

Crace, John

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ISBN 10: 1571431594 ISBN 13: 9781571431592

Published by RDR Books, 2006

Language: English

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Title

The Digested Read

Publisher

RDR Books

Publication Date

2006

Language

English

ISBN 10

1571431594

ISBN 13

9781571431592

Binding

Soft cover

Condition

Very Good

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Literary ombudsman John Crace never met an important book he didn't like to deconstruct.From Salman Rushdie to John Grisham, Crace retells the big books in just 500 bitingly satirical words, pointing his pen at the clunky plots, stylistic tics and pretensions to Big Ideas, as he turns publishers' golden dream books into dross. In the grand tradition of Tom Lehrer and Stan Freberg, Crace takes the books that produce the most media hype and retells each story in its author's inimitable style. Philip Roth, Don Delillo, Margaret Drabble, Paul Auster, Alice Sebold, John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Ruth Rendell, A.S. Byatt, John LeCarre, Michael Crichton and Ian McEwan all emerge delightfully scathed in this book that makes it easy to talk knowingly about books you've never bothered to read or, for that matter, should have.

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