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    Shaken and Stirred

    Intoxicating Stories

    Part of Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series

    Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
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    Hardcover
    $16.00 US
    Knopf | Everyman's Library
    4.9"W x 7.4"H x 1.1"D   | 15 oz | 24 per carton
    On sale Sep 06, 2016 | 400 Pages | 9781101907801
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    Shaken and Stirred is an enticing literary cocktail of stories about drinking and making merry by great writers from the past two centuries.
               
    In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppances at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories by P. G. Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis; Charles Jackson and Jean Rhys chronicle liquor-soaked epiphanies; while John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov, and Robert Coover set their characters afloat on surreal, soul-revealing adventures. Here, too, are well-lubricated tales by Dickens, Twain, Beckett, Colette, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dawn Powell, Clarice Lispector, Joy Williams, Penelope Lively, and many more.

    The settings include hotels and restaurants, a wine cellar in Italy, a café in Paris, a bar in Dublin, a New York nightclub, Jazz Age speakeasies, suburban lawn parties, and the occasional jail cell, and are peopled by lovers and loners, bartenders and chorus girls, youths taking their first sips and experienced tipplers waking with hangovers. Whether living it up or drowning their sorrows, the vividly drawn characters in these sparkling pages will leave you shaken and stirred.
    O. Henry, “The Lost Blend” 
    Charles Jackson, from The Lost Weekend
    Dorothy Parker, “You Were Perfectly Fine”
    Mark Twain, “The Story of the Old Ram”
    Kingsley Amis, from Lucky Jim
    Roald Dahl, “Taste”
    Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”
    Damon Runyon, “Lillian”
    Jack London, from John Barleycorn
    Frank O’Connor, “The Drunkard”
    Alice Munro, “An Ounce of Cure”
    Sherwood Anderson, “Drink”
    Doris Lessing, “Wine”
    Guy de Maupassant, “Indiscretion”
    Colette, “Clouk’s Fling”
    Penelope Lively, “Party”
    Charles Dickens, “A Bachelor’s Party”
    Dawn Powell, “Dinner on the Rocks”
    P. G. Wodehouse, “Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest”
    Jean Rhys, “In the Rue de l’Arrivée”
    Samuel Beckett, “Ding-Dong”
    Joy Williams, “Craving”  
    Vladimir Nabokov, “Details of a Sunset”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Cut-Glass Bowl”
    Clarice Lispector, “Daydreams and Drunkenness of a Young Lady”
    John Cheever, “The Swimmer”
    Robert Coover, “Going for a Beer”
     

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    Shaken and Stirred is an enticing literary cocktail of stories about drinking and making merry by great writers from the past two centuries.
               
    In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppances at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories by P. G. Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis; Charles Jackson and Jean Rhys chronicle liquor-soaked epiphanies; while John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov, and Robert Coover set their characters afloat on surreal, soul-revealing adventures. Here, too, are well-lubricated tales by Dickens, Twain, Beckett, Colette, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dawn Powell, Clarice Lispector, Joy Williams, Penelope Lively, and many more.

    The settings include hotels and restaurants, a wine cellar in Italy, a café in Paris, a bar in Dublin, a New York nightclub, Jazz Age speakeasies, suburban lawn parties, and the occasional jail cell, and are peopled by lovers and loners, bartenders and chorus girls, youths taking their first sips and experienced tipplers waking with hangovers. Whether living it up or drowning their sorrows, the vividly drawn characters in these sparkling pages will leave you shaken and stirred.

    Table of Contents

    O. Henry, “The Lost Blend” 
    Charles Jackson, from The Lost Weekend
    Dorothy Parker, “You Were Perfectly Fine”
    Mark Twain, “The Story of the Old Ram”
    Kingsley Amis, from Lucky Jim
    Roald Dahl, “Taste”
    Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”
    Damon Runyon, “Lillian”
    Jack London, from John Barleycorn
    Frank O’Connor, “The Drunkard”
    Alice Munro, “An Ounce of Cure”
    Sherwood Anderson, “Drink”
    Doris Lessing, “Wine”
    Guy de Maupassant, “Indiscretion”
    Colette, “Clouk’s Fling”
    Penelope Lively, “Party”
    Charles Dickens, “A Bachelor’s Party”
    Dawn Powell, “Dinner on the Rocks”
    P. G. Wodehouse, “Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest”
    Jean Rhys, “In the Rue de l’Arrivée”
    Samuel Beckett, “Ding-Dong”
    Joy Williams, “Craving”  
    Vladimir Nabokov, “Details of a Sunset”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Cut-Glass Bowl”
    Clarice Lispector, “Daydreams and Drunkenness of a Young Lady”
    John Cheever, “The Swimmer”
    Robert Coover, “Going for a Beer”
     

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