Buy this book on-line FAULKS**, SEBASTIAN: : PISTACHE:A COLLECTION of FANCIFUL,SATIRICAL and SURPRISING Parodies,squibs and Pastiches Inspired By THE WRITE STUFF on RADIO 4LONDON.HUTCHINSON,2006. ISBN 0091797071.
UK,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,generally clean dw/dj,with black+red illustration to upper pamel; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean, sharp-cornered brown paper-covered bds with dw/dj illustration repeated to upper bd,and bright,crisp,red ink stamped letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain red eps.UK,slim,upright rectanguar 12moHB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,1-103pp [paginated] includes over 40 pistaches from writers as varied as Amis,K) to W.B. Yeats,profuse b/w illustrations by George Papadakis throughout the text,plus [unpaginated] half-title page,SIGNED title-page,dedication,thanks to producers/ readers/guests of Radio 4 programme The Write Stuff,and acknowledgements at rear.
pistache,pish-tash (noun) - a friendly spoof or parody of another's work.[Deriv uncertain.Possibly a cross between pastiche and p***take.]
From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and not-so-great is here sent up with little hope of coming down.
Most of these pieces began their life on Radio Four's 'The Write Stuff',but have been retooled for the printed page.Others, such as Martin Amis's first day at Hogwarts,have been written specially for this collection.
Philip Larkin's 'Lines in Celebration of the Queen Mother's 115th Birthday',first banned,then cut by the BBC,appears in its entirety for the first time.
This is not a book for the faint-hearted or the downstairs lavatory.
It is a book for the bedside table of someone you cannot live without.
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