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,contemplate the tanning of Russian bottoms on the Cte d'Azur,offer advice on driving during Romanian revolutions,explain what to do with fifty uselessnesses,give tips on successful and painless serial killing and demonstrate conclusively that no-one should live in South London.
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Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099283126Number of pages: 256Weight: 181 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
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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 creepyOne of the funniest literary intellectsTibor 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.Sly and full of thirtysomething angst. Although stepping into Fischer's world may be a dark and cynical thrill,a thrill it is
Tibor Fischer
British novelist and short story writer...
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