The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels
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- Synopsis
- Lynne Truss debuted in America as a guffaw-inducing grammarian, but her British audience has known her for years as a critically acclaimed novelist and columnist. Her previous works are now available stateside in one volume, complete with a new preface. With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed, a raucous comedy of errors, follows the exploits of Osborne Lonsdale, who writes a weekly column called "Me and My Shed" for a floundering gardening magazine. When the publication is taken over by a gung-ho management team, Lonsdale must learn to cope with his new coworkers. In Tennyson's Giftand Going Loco, Truss turns a fiendishly clever eye to the literary world. Tennyson's Giftis an imaginative cocktail of Victorian seriousness and farce that re-imagines the world of the nineteenth-century English poet laureate, placing him in the midst of eccentric company that includes dodgy Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll). Going Locofeatures a critic trying to write a definitive account of the doppelgänger in gothic fiction, amidst the chaos of her domestic life, including paranoia that her cleaning lady is taking over her life. Making the Cat Laughis a riotous collection of columns about single life. Truss comments on dating, secondhand smoking, shopping, holidays, and people who ask, "How's the novel going?" All the while, she continues an eighteen-year quest to make her cat laugh. Reportedly, the feline remains unimpressed. A feast of wit, The Lynne Truss Treasurywill delight fans of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Praise for Lynne Truss and her work: With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed "Lynne Truss has written a perfect comic novel at the first attempt... a witty, ingenious romp. " -Daily Telegraph "This book will become a perennial comic delight... this Truss must never be stopped. " -Sue Limb "Sex, violence, murder and psychoanalysis lurk in the garden shed - a breezy, rude, pleasurable alternative to cutting the grass. " -Obeserver Making the Cat Laugh "A small masterpiece of comedy. . . with abundant close observation, the familiar is made fresh. . . A continual hoot. " -The Times "A truly inventive comic writer . . . You should not attempt to read Making the Cat Laughwhile travelling on public transport" -The Irish Times "[Lynne Truss is] a social humorist of sharp insight and startling candour. " -Scotland on Sunday Tennyson's Gift "A comic novel of subtle distinction . . . richly entertaining and at times very moving. " -The Times "The perfect summer book. No deck-chair will be complete without it. " -The Independent "Terrific. . . Tennyson's Giftis witty, surprising, oddly compassionate and hugely assured. " -The Sunday Times Going Loco "Truss lets her imagination explode in what can only be described as a riddle devised while coming down of hallucinogens. " -Time Out "A classic comic novel, unashamed, exuberant, fiendishly clever, and a joy to read. " -The Daily Telegraph "Going Locois wonderfully underplayed, unpredictable and unexpectedly sinister. " -Sunday Express
- Copyright:
- 2005
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781101218266
- Publisher:
- Penguin
- Date of Addition:
- 04/25/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Lynne Truss
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Humor
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.