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Filthy English

Name: Filthy English
Author: Jonathan Meades

Auteur: Jonathan Meades

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Jonathan Meades

Engels
Paperback
9780007156436
05 mei 2003
160 pagina's

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These short stories mark the start of a brilliant and black literary career.

Bestial pornographic movies and aniseed addiction; hallucinogenic mushrooms and incest; a homosexual crime passionel. As you would expect from Jonathan Meades, his disturbing collection of short stories introduces us to characters who lurk and linger around the back alleys of the mind.

'A marvellously potent vision.'
Nicholas Shakespeare, 'The Times'

'Luminously tasteless'
Roger Lewis, 'Punch'

'Jonathan Meades' enticingly repellent stories are posh bovver – they reach into parts of society more sensitive black comedians might well retch away from.'
Valentine Cunningham, 'Observer'

'A hugely original imagination – it's also undeniably horrible.'
Robert Nye, 'Guardian'

'Real flair and captivating eccentricity.'
John Melmouth, 'TLS'

These short stories mark the start of a brilliant and black literary career.

A dog who stars in bestial pornographic movies describes the slippery slope towards aniseed addiction in 'Fur and Skin'. 'The Sylvan Life' is a story of rustling, hallucinogenic mushrooms and incest as they proliferate in the New Forest. In 'Spring and Fall' a rich and childless woman offers a sybaritic young boy a clandestine family life which becomes his downfall. The most extraordinary circumstances combine to provide the perfect alibi for a homosexual 'crime passionnel' in 'Oh So Bent', 'The Brute's Price' demonstrates the inadvertent steps an innocent man may take in bringing himself under suspicion of heinous murders on Portland. An injection of the criminal element into the pretensions of suburban Surrey provides the squalid drama of 'Rhododendron Gulch'. In the title story a relentlessly pedantic urge of a lexicographer to discover why his surname is a slang word for 'foot' leads him to a nightmarish revelation.

Jonathan Meades has a black imagination. Not content with disarming his readers an outrageous premise, he continues to tease their curiosity from one end of each story to the other. His is the kind of originality that comes along rarely, his characters the sort who lurk and linger round the back alleys of the mind.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 mei 2003
Aantal pagina's: 160
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Jonathan Meades
Hoofduitgeverij: Fourth Estate Ltd

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Editie: New edition
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 10 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 129 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 10 mm
Verpakking lengte: 198 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 122 g

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EAN: 9780007156436

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Taal: Engels
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Land: Engeland
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar

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