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Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid
Tibor Fischer
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Description for Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid
Paperback. A series of humourous short stories starting in misery and dropping towards despair. One character has a quest to read every book ever written in English, devouring them two at a time. The aphoristic tales are sandwiched between two novellas and deliver an apocalyptic vision with a grim smile. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 180.
A dazzling collection of short fiction, containing stories published in New Writing and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as several new stories. The Novella 'I Like being Killed' takes the lid off the comedy scene in London, investigates where jokes come from and how you can make people laugh with only one toothpick and a foreskin. Other stories visit Brixton prison and German bookshops, contemplate the tanning of Russian bottoms on the Côte d'Azur, offer advice on driving during Romanian revolutions, explain what to do with fifty uselessnesses, give tips on successful and painless serial killing and demonstrate conclusively ... Read more
A dazzling collection of short fiction, containing stories published in New Writing and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as several new stories. The Novella 'I Like being Killed' takes the lid off the comedy scene in London, investigates where jokes come from and how you can make people laugh with only one toothpick and a foreskin. Other stories visit Brixton prison and German bookshops, contemplate the tanning of Russian bottoms on the Côte d'Azur, offer advice on driving during Romanian revolutions, explain what to do with fifty uselessnesses, give tips on successful and painless serial killing and demonstrate conclusively ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099283126
SKU
V9780099283126
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About Tibor Fischer
Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport in 1959 of Hungarian parents. Brought up in South London he was educated at Cambridge and worked as a journalist. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his first novel, Under the Frog, which also won the Betty Trask Award, and he was nominated as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. ... Read more
Reviews for Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid
A stylish, slickly readable, frequently schoolboyish, now and then absurd comic bagatelle which also manages, somehow or other, to be worldly wise, subversive, and not a little creepy
Henry Hitchings
Independent
One of the funniest literary intellects
Steven Poole
The Guardian
Tibor Fischer is the Ali G of literature..... Perhaps the best tribute to ... Read more
Henry Hitchings
Independent
One of the funniest literary intellects
Steven Poole
The Guardian
Tibor Fischer is the Ali G of literature..... Perhaps the best tribute to ... Read more