Shaken and Stirred
Subtitle: Intoxicating Stories
Publisher: Everyman's Pocket Classics/Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9781841596211
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Fiction, short stories (single author)
Description: Now joining Everyman's Library — the permanent library of the world's greatest writers, printed on acid-free paper with sewn full cloth bindings — is an appealing new collection in a small Pocket Classics format, perfect for gift-giving and a pleasure to read.

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 comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over•-lmbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories bv P. G. 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 bv Dickens, Twain, Beckett, Colette, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Doris Lessing, Frank O'Connor, 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 gaol cell, and are peopled by lovers and loners, barmen 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: title: O. Henry: "The Lost Blend"; title: Charles Jackson: from "The Lost Weekend"; title: Dorothy Parker: "You Were Perfectly Fine"; title: Mark Twain: "The Story of the Old Ram"; title: Kingsley Amis: from "Lucky Jim"; title: Roald Dahl: "Taste"; title: Edgar Allan Poe: "The Cask of Amontillado"; title: Damon Runyon: "Lillian"; title: Jack London: from "John Barleycorn"; title: Frank O'Connor: "The Drunkard"; title: Alice Munro: "An Ounce of Cure"; title: Sherwood Anderson: "Drink"; title: Doris Lessing: "Wine"; title: Guy de Maupassant: "Indiscretion" [translated from the French by Albert M.C. McMaster and A.E. Henderson]; title: Colette: "Clouk's Fling" [translated from the French by Matthew Ward]; title: Raymond Carver: "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"; title: Penelope Lively: "Party"; title: Charles Dickens: "A Bachelor's Party"; title: Dawn Powell: "Dinner on the Rocks"; title: P.G. Wodehouse: "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest"; title: Jean Rhys: "In the Rue de l'Arrivée"; title: Samuel Beckett: "Ding-Dong"; title: Joy Williams: "Craving"; title: Vladimir Nabokov: "Details of a Sunset"; title: F. Scott Fitzgerald: "The Cut-Glass Bowl"; title: Clarice Lispector: "Daydreams and Drunkenness of a Young Lady" [translated from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson]; title: John Cheever: "The Swimmer"; title: Robert Coover: "Going for a Beer."