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Title:
A sidecar named desire : great writers and the booze that stirred them
Author:
Clarke, Greg, 1959-
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ISBN:
9780062696380
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
180 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 21 cm
General Note:
"An illustrated history of drink from 3000 BC to the present" -- cover.
Contents:
Prologue: When the spirits move you -- Wine -- Beer -- Whiskey -- Gin -- Vodka -- Absinthe -- Mezcal and Tequila -- Rum -- Epilogue: It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.
Abstract:
"A rollicking illustrated history of alcohol and its literary imbibers, from Jane Austen's beer brewing to James Joyce's passion for Guinness to E.B. White's cure for writers' block--a dry martini--by celebrated New Yorker cartoonist Greg Clarke and award-winning comics anthologist Monte Beauchamp" -- Provided by publisher.
Summary:
"A rollicking illustrated history of alcohol and its literary imbibers, from Jane Austen's beer brewing to James Joyce's passion for Guinness to E.B. White's cure for writers' block--a dry martini--by celebrated New Yorker cartoonist Greg Clarke and award-winning comics anthologist Monte Beauchamp" --
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