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Item Details
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THE FABER BOOK OF DRINK, DRINKERS AND DRINKING
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| By: |
Simon Rae (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571168213 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571168217 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
8 March, 1993 |
| Pages: |
576 |
| Description: |
Alcohol is mankind's favourite drug. Tipple, poison, mother's ruin, mud in your eye, juice, 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 with swigs from Homer, the Bible and Dickens. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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