Author:Woody Allen
'I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me.' Thus begins 'Strung Out', Woody Allen's hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen's first collection in over 25 years, features eighteen witty, wild and intelligent comic pieces - eight of which have never been in print before.
Surreal, absurd, rich in verbal play, bitingly satirical and just plain daft in the mode we have grown to love from his finest films, this flight-of-fancy collection includes tales of a body double who, mistaken for the film's star, is kidnapped by outlaws; a pretentious novelist forced to work on the novelisation of a Three Stooges film; a nanny secretly writing an expose of her Manhattan employers; crooks selling bespoke prayers on eBay; and how to react when you're asked to finance a Broadway play about the invention and manufacture of the adjustable showerhead.
Allen is the funniest man in the world. Buy this book at once
—— the TimesOne of the world's funniest writers
—— Irish TimesMere Anarchy breaks a 27-year drought for fans of Allen the literary prankster. It more than justifies the wait... His stories are delicious confections: virtuoso turns, tipsy on their own linguistic ingenuity
—— IndependentIf Allen had lived in Augustan England scholars would now be considering him alongisde Dryden, Pope and Swift
—— Daily TelegraphTouched by genius
—— Glasgow HeraldHe is surely a genius in that he has created his own unique recognisable world
—— Sunday TimesWonderfully funny ... meticulously crafted
—— Time OutBreath-taking ... Su Tong renders these people so vividly they possess of us, the individuality that they deny one another
—— Los Angeles TimesScorching ...spinning a plot featuring blackmail, adultery, incest and scandal, Su Tong creates visceral drama that moves rapidly in Goldblatt's fluid translation
—— Publishers' Weekly Starred reviewA riveting melodrama ... page by page, the novel stuns us with a sequence of hallucinatory, disturbing inventions ...Balzac and Zola would have recognized a kindred spirit in Su Tong
—— Kirkus ReviewsThese are stories that will sneak into the back of your brain and lurk there long after you are finished reading.
—— Global Review
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