Name: Mere anarchy
Rating: 2.75 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780812979503

Woody Allen

Mere anarchy

Mere Anarchy

Maurice FitzGerald

'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.

Sedat Kapanoglu

Jeff James

A new collection of eighteen stories, including eight never-before-published pieces, features the author's inimitable reflections on everything from nanny tell-alls and film camp to clothes that smell like twice-cooked pork, in such works as "Nanny Dearest," "Sam You Made the Pants Too Fragrant," "Calisthenics, Poison Ivy, Final Cut," and "How Deadly Your Taste Buds, My Sweet." 75,000 first printing.

Mere anarchy

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