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Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis, by Kingsley Amis
€5.00
Quay Books
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.
“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
“Kingsley Amis's drink writing is better than anybody else's, ever...” - Esquire
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