The Faber Book of Drink, Drinkers and Drinking

by Simon Rae

Book Overview

Alcohol is mankind's favourite drug. Tipple, red-eye, poison, mother's ruin, mud in your eye, juice, sauce, a shot of the hard stuff and plonk - all of these terms are included in this anthology of nips and draughts of every intoxicant in the thesaurus - and then some more - with swigs and gulps from Rabelais, Homer, the Bible, Chaucer, Dickens, Kingsley Amis, Gavin Ewart, Wendy Cope and Seamus Heaney.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571168213
• ISBN13: 9780571168217
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

The most lucid heavy weight drinking companion

A truly stimulating compendium that expresses with comedy and pathos all the romanticism found in the tempestuous marriage of drinking and writers. Containing a gamut of quotes, poems and passages from novels, all detailed with the highs and lows of forays into the realm of intemperance, this is a must for anyone who enjoys the associate pursuits of drinking and literature.