Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781408803837, 9781408803837

Автор

Издатель Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Страниц 320

Год выпуска 2009

Форма выпуска 130x200

The drinks revival is nearly complete - it"s now possible to be as insufferable about beer and spirits as about wine - but the revival seems to come with a warning label: enjoy the drinks, but don"t drink too much. In the face of that, it"s refreshing to see an artifact from a more hedonistic era: Amis knew the finer points of booze as well as anyone, but he never apologized for enjoying its effect, either. This reissue, appropriately introduced by Christopher Hitchens, collects Amis" three drinks books: On Drink (1973), an indispensable primer; Every Day Drinking (1983), a browseworthy collection of newspaper columns; and How"s Your Glass? (1984), a dispensable collection of quizzes. Some of the advice is timeless - Amis, who could presumably afford better, advocated strategic deployment of cheap booze to save money - and some is not: liquor-store shelves look so different now that some passages are best read for historical perspective. But good humor never spoils, and Amis" quips...