The Digested Twenty-first Century
$44.21
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
10 April 2014
Summary
John Crace’s Digested Read first appeared in February 2000 and has been running ever since. Each week, Crace reduces a new book—anything from a Booker Prize winner to a Nigella cookery book is fair game—to 700 words in a parody of the plot, style, dialogue, and themes. Or lack of them.
The Digested Read has not just become an institution for readers; it is read and enjoyed by publishers and authors too. So long as it is not their book being digested.
A few ye…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780338583 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780338589 |
| Author: | John Crace |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 10 April 2014 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 138mm x 200mm |
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Critics Review
A swift kick up the backside to some of modern literature’s most iconic works. Accurate, merciless and very, very funny.
A swift kick up the backside to some of modern literature’s most iconic works. Accurate, merciless and very, very funny.
I’ve read all these books at least twice - and now I’ve read John Crace’s digested versions I wonder why I bothered.For the last 10 years [Crace’s] ‘Digested Reads’ have been reason enough to buy the Guardian. Taking a well-known novel, he gives a brief distillation of the plot while capturing - often perfectly - the tone of its author. At the same time, he jabs a sharpened elbow into their pomposities and limitations.John Crace
John Crace is a staff feature writer for the Guardian, where he is best known for the literary pastiche ‘Digested Read’. He has also written several books, including Vertigo: One Football Fan’s Fear of Success. He lives in south-west London but travels to N17 for every home game.
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