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Condition
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A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket (if applicable) included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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Binding
Paperback
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Product Group
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ISBN
9781609455774

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Europa Editions, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1609455770
ISBN-13
9781609455774
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038788796

Product Key Features

Book Title
Cooking with Fernet Branca
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Satire, Romance / Romantic Comedy, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Fiction
Author
James Hamilton-Paterson
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.2 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Praise for Cooking with Fernet Branca "I've never laughed so hard. Giving good-natured belly aching laughter is a real gift. Thank you James Hamilton-Paterson." --Chelsea Clinton, Entertainment Weekly ". . . a bagatelle of a book, a sex romp with recipes, a weekend getaway for the mind." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "The fun is in Hamilton-Paterson's offhand observations and delicate touch in handling his two unreliable misfits as they find each other--and there's lots of it." -- Publishers Weekly "Though Cooking with Femet Branca sounds like the title of an offbeat cookbook, it is, in fact, a devilishly funny novel, complete with stomach-turning recipes." --Gastronimica
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Synopsis
"A very funny sendup of Italian-cooking-holiday-romance novels" ( Publishers Weekly ). Gerald Samper, an effete English snob, has his own private hilltop in Tuscany where he whiles away his time working as a ghostwriter for celebrities and inventing wholly original culinary concoctions--including ice cream made with garlic and the bitter, herb-based liqueur known as Fernet Branca. But Gerald's idyll is about to be shattered by the arrival of Marta, on the run from a crime-riddled former Soviet republic, as a series of misunderstandings brings this odd couple into ever closer and more disastrous proximity . . . "Provokes the sort of indecorous involuntary laughter that has more in common with sneezing than chuckling. Imagine a British John Waters crossed with David Sedaris."-- The New York Times, A witty satire of the expat experience in rural Europe and antidote to every 'wish-you-were-here' travel memoir, this novel is entertainment in its purest form. Gerald Samper is all about the good life. On his own private hilltop in idyllic Tuscany, he is living his own brand of la bella vita working as a ghostwriter for celebrities. He wiles away his free time concocting outrageous dishes with the distinctive liqueur gifted to the area's new arrivals. But it's not long before his little slice of paradise is shattered by the arrival of an eccentric neighbor. Marta is a composer on the run from 'Voynovia, ' a crime-riddled Eastern European nation to which she owes her distinctive accent. With her nocturnal helicopter visits and habitual piano-playing, it's not long before the two clash and become embroiled in an absurd turf war. The battle compels each side to devise increasingly strange retaliations: a back-and-forth which features such delicacies as Gerald's batch of Garlic and Fernet Branca Ice Cream and Marta's parody of her neighbor's terrible singing for a film score she's composing. With each ridiculous misunderstanding, the two are brought into ever closer and ever more disastrous proximity. In their earnest attempts to narrate their side of the story it quickly becomes apparent how unreliable they both really are. An adroit, charming and bitingly funny comedy of manners for anyone who finds humor in the idiosyncrasies of human behavior.

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