Summary
‘Side-splittingly funny…Conrad with jokes… Do read this book’ - Sunday Times
A dazzling collection of short fiction, containing stories published in New Writing and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as several new stories.
The Novella ‘I Like being Killed’ takes the lid off the comedy scene in London, investigates where jokes come from and how you can make people laugh with only one toothpick and a foreskin. Other stories visit Brixton prison and German bookshops, contemp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099283126 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099283123 |
| Author: | Tibor Fischer |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2001 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
A stylish, slickly readable, frequently schoolboyish, now and then absurd comic bagatelle which also manages, somehow or other, to be worldly wise, subversive, and not a little creepy
A stylish, slickly readable, frequently schoolboyish, now and then absurd comic bagatelle which also manages, somehow or other, to be worldly wise, subversive, and not a little creepy – Henry Hitchings * Independent *
One of the funniest literary intellects – Steven Poole * The Guardian *
Tibor Fischer is the Ali G of literature….. Perhaps the best tribute to Fischer is that he is one of the handful of authors of whom one asks in hopeful anticipation what he or she is going to do next. – George Walden * New Statesman *
Sly and full of thirtysomething angst. Although stepping into Fischer’s world may be a dark and cynical thrill, a thrill it is * Booklist *
About The Author
Tibor Fischer
Tibor Fischer was born in Stockport in 1959 of Hungarian parents. Brought up in South London he was educated at Cambridge and worked as a journalist. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his first novel, Under the Frog, which also won the Betty Trask Award, and he was nominated as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.
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