Shaken and stirred
Subtitle: intoxicating stories
By: edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Series: Everyman's pocket classics; Everyman's pocket classics
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9781101907801
Subjects: Drinking customs; American fiction; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Fiction
Description: "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 comeuppances at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents overimbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts a comic price in stories by P.G. Wodehouse 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 by Dickens, Twain, Beckett, Colette, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dawn Powell, Clarice Lispector, Joy Williams, Penelope Lively, and many more. The settings include hotels and restaurants, a wine cellar in Italy, a cafe in Paris, a bar in Dublin, a New York nightclub, Jazz Age speakeasies, suburban lawn parties, and the occasional jail cell, and are peopled by lovers and loners, bartenders 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"--
Notes: Some stories translated into English from French.
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: 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: "Daydream 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."