Everyday Drinking

The Distilled Kingsley Amis

Everyday Drinking
Kingsley Amis
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Hardback
h198 x 129mm - 320pg
14 Oct 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781526640154
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Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject: Kingsley Amis in Drink, Everyday Drinking and How' s Your Glass? In one handsome package, the book covers a full shelf of the master' s riotous and erudite thoughts on the drinking arts: Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) are Amis' s musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man' s Diet, The Mean Sod' s Guide, and (presumably as a matter of speculation) How Not to Get Drunk - all leavened with fun quizzes on the making and drinking of alcohol all over the world. Mixing practical know-how and hilarious opinionation, this is a delightful cocktail of wry humour and distilled knowledge, served by one of our great gimlet wits.
"Kingsley Amis' s drink writing is better than anybody else' s, ever. . . " * - Esquire * "These books are so delicious they impart a kind of contact high; they make you feel as if you' ve just had the first sip of the planet' s coldest, driest martini. " * - The New York Times Daily Review * "There has never been a more charming, erudite, eager, generous and devoted lover of drink - to judge by his writing - than Kingsley Amis. " * - The New York Times Sunday Book Review * "His treatise on the hangover (both physical and metaphysical) is among his best known for a reason, and is required reading for the dipsomaniacs amongst us. " * - The Washington Times *
Born in London in 1922, Kingsley Amis was one of the best-loved British novelists of the twentieth century. He was the author of more than twenty novels, including the classic Lucky Jim, and a number of other works of criticism, poetry, and memoir. He was knighted in 1990, and died in 1995 at the age of seventy-three.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781526640154
Published: 14 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 320

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