{"product_id":"lynne-truss-treasury-columns-and-three-comic-novels","title":"Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLynne Truss\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781592401369\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGotham\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eLynne Truss debuted in America as a guffaw-inducing grammarian, but her British audience has known her for years as a critically acclaimed novelist and columnist. Her previous works are now available stateside in one volume, complete with a new preface. With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed, a raucous comedy of errors, follows the exploits of Osborne Lonsdale, who writes a weekly column called Me and My Shed for a floundering gardening magazine. When the publication is taken over by a gung-ho management team, Lonsdale must learn to cope with his new coworkers. In Tennyson's Gift and Going Loco, Truss turns a fiendishly clever eye to the literary world. Tennyson's Gift is an imaginative cocktail of Victorian seriousness and farce that re-imagines the world of the nineteenth-century English poet laureate, placing him in the midst of eccentric company that includes dodgy Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll). Going Loco features a critic trying to write a definitive account of the doppelgAnger in gothic fiction, amidst the chaos of her domestic life, including paranoia that her cleaning lady is taking over her life. Making the Cat Laugh is a riotous collection of columns about single life. Truss comments on dating, secondhand smoking, shopping, holidays, and people who ask, How's the novel going? All the while, she continues an eighteen-year quest to make her cat laugh. Reportedly, the feline remains unimpressed. A feast of wit, The Lynne Truss Treasury will delight fans of Eats, Shoots \u0026amp; Leaves, \u003cbr\u003e Praise for Lynne Truss and her work: \u003cbr\u003e With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed\u003cbr\u003e aLynne Truss has written a perfect comic novel at the first attempta] awitty, ingenious romp.a\u003cbr\u003e aDaily Telegraph \u003cbr\u003e aThis book will become a perennial comic delighta] this Truss must never be stopped.a\u003cbr\u003e aSue Limb \u003cbr\u003e aSex, violence, murder and psychoanalysis lurk in the garden shed - a breezy, rude, pleasurable alternative to cutting the grass.a\u003cbr\u003e aObeserver \u003cbr\u003e Making the Cat Laugh \u003cbr\u003e aA small masterpiece of comedy...with abundant close observation, the familiar is made fresh...A continual hoot.a\u003cbr\u003e aThe Times \u003cbr\u003e aA truly inventive comic writer ... You should not attempt to read Making the Cat Laugh while travelling on public transporta\u003cbr\u003e aThe Irish Times \u003cbr\u003e a[Lynne Truss is] a social humorist of sharp insight and startling candour.a\u003cbr\u003e aScotland on Sunday \u003cbr\u003e Tennysonas Gift \u003cbr\u003e aA comic novel of subtle distinction ... richly entertaining and at times very moving.a\u003cbr\u003e aThe Times \u003cbr\u003e aThe perfect summer book. No deck-chair will be complete without it.a\u003cbr\u003e aThe Independent \u003cbr\u003e aTerrific...Tennyson's Gift is witty, surprising, oddly compassionate and hugely assured.a\u003cbr\u003e aThe Sunday Times \u003cbr\u003e Going Loco \u003cbr\u003e aTruss lets her imagination explode in what can only be described as a riddle devised while coming down of hallucinogens.a\u003cbr\u003e aTime Out \u003cbr\u003e aA classic comic novel, unashamed, exuberant, fiendishly clever, and a joy to read.a\u003cbr\u003e aThe Daily Telegraph \u003cbr\u003e aGoing Loco is wonderfully underplayed, unpredictable and unexpectedly sinister.a\u003cbr\u003e aSunday Express\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Gotham","offers":[{"title":"Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels | Lynne Truss | Paperback | 9781592401369 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1654594","offer_id":50778845872386,"sku":"1654594","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51vb9NkY9xL.jpg?v=1792174116","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/lynne-truss-treasury-columns-and-three-comic-novels","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}