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Loading... Pistache (2006)by Sebastian Faulks
   None No current Talk conversations about this book. Hilarious. Absolutely worth the hour or two it took me to read through it all, then I had to find people to read my favourites to. Incredibly spot on prose imitations. Loved the Chaucer poem about Geri Halliwell. (  ) soradsauce | Nov 17, 2017 |  It is spoof of another's work. None of the spoof is more than 2 pages long. Few ecamples, Martin Amis sends his lad to Hogwarts, Jane Austen steps out with American Psycho or Dan Brown visits the cash dispenser. Some of sotuations alone are funny. Sometimes complex writing on innocent subject as 'how to boil an egg' makes it funny (Updike). Though since I have never read Martin Amis, Philip Larkin, Chaucer or Updike - several of spoofs were lost on me or I couldn't appreciate their art completely. When I actually read these authors, I will come back to this book. (  ) poonamsharma | Apr 6, 2013 | Unmatched, all the way from the title to the end note ( ) Faradaydon | Feb 9, 2013 | Short patrodies of English literature's greats. Kingsley Amis has a hot at a female narrator, The Brontes place some lonely hearts ads. (  ) triscuit | Sep 17, 2007 | no reviews | add a review
pistache (pis-tash)- a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. Deriv uncertain. Possibly a cross between pastiche and p**stake. From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the not-so-great is here sent up with little hope of coming down.Most of these pieces began their life on Radio Four's The Write Stuff, but have been retooled for the printed page. Others, such as Martin Amis's first day at Hogwarts, have been written specially for this collection.Philip Larkin's Lines in Celebration of the Queen Mother's 115th Birthday, first banned, then cut by the BBC, appears in its entirety for the first time.This is not a book for the faint-hearted or the downstairs lavatory. It is a book for the bedside table of someone you cannot live without. No library descriptions found. |
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